Sorry, I don't speak tech very well, so I didn't catch that it was the same. (I caught the part about using a different browser, that's what reminded me, but the HTTPS part lost me.) : - )
Anywho, great minds and all that....
Essjay
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Ilmari Karonen wrote:
Essjay wrote:
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.