Ilmari Karonen wrote:
From reading between the lines, it seems AOL does
_not_ use packet
filtering; they've just configured their standard browser to use their
proxies by default. This means that:
* Installing a different browser bypasses the proxies.
* HTTPS bypasses the proxies.
* Changing the browser configuration _might_ bypass the proxies (unless
they've locked it down somehow; I don't really know).
* Using a nonstandard port for HTTP does _not_ bypass the proxies.
Perhaps a bit of a tangent, but I believe some AOL users have discovered
a separate range (172-something, I believe) which is semi-static (at
least, static for a single session, rather than changing in whatever way
the others do) that can be utilized by avoiding the AOL browser, and
instead using an "after-market" package (like Firefox, I assume). I'm
sure we could find a description by searching en.wiki
That's what I wrote above, didn't I? Specifically, the ranges are
listed at <http://webmaster.info.aol.com/proxyinfo.html>.