Bart Smaalders writes:
> suffice.  Could one use some ipfilter magic to redirect
> http traffic through a proxy?

There's no way to know which outbound traffic corresponds to "http
traffic."  There's no requirement that remote sites actually put their
web servers on port 80, and many do not.

> Or does running a local proxy
> make more sense; it would change configuration but local apps
> would always contact the local proxy.

That just moves the problem from one place to another.  Perhaps the
theory is that (unlike the browser), we can make this proxy work right
... ?

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