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
Essjay
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Essjay
Wikipedia:The Free Encyclopedia
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Ilmari Karonen wrote:
Neil Harris wrote:
How about doing SSL via a non-standard port,
which will miss the proxies
_if_ the transparent proxying simply uses packet filtering at the
network side to detect proxyable traffic?
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.