2007/11/27, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com: That isn't going to work: Your browser will claim that it's trying to connect to localhost in its http request. The wikimedia squids use the hostname for access control, and the wikimedia Apaches use it to determine which site out of the 700 some wikis you were attempting to reach.
If it is the root cause, I have yet another question: My friend (another site admin) lent me a ssh account on his server, I set up the same ssh tunnel and I can connect to wikipedia without problem. (Our servers are in the same ISP domain.)
You could probably work around this by putting an entry for xx.wikipedia.org in your hosts file on your client, or by just running a proper proxy on your server.
I have little knowledge about proxy so I would like to try hosts file entry at first,
for example the ja.wikipedia.org is 203.212.189.253 (nslookup result on my server) So I need to add "203.212.189.253 ja.wikipedia.org" In my c:\windows\drivers\etc\hosts file?
Thanks for your help. Brian.