Re: [squid-users] How to make squid IM/IRC friendly?

From: Amos Jeffries <squid3@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:24:30 +1300

Joel Bryan Juliano wrote:
> I use GNOME and when I configure my desktop to use a squid proxy
> address in "Network Proxy",
> Pidgin automatically use "GNOME Proxy Settings", and could not connect.

Funky. I have no problem with that config.
Check your proxy settings are correct
> echo $http_proxy
     http://proxy.your.domain.invalid:3128/

(or rather with your actual proxy FQDN)

Also try with/without the "Use for all protocols" checkbox. I have heard
  of problems with that, though have only seen it myself with
thunderbird choosing the SOCKS as best proxy when none available :-(.

As a final backup you can set the proxy details for each account
directly into pidgin.

>
> Is there a squid configuration that will allow communication from MSN,
> Yahoo, Gmail and IRC?
>

Not with their native clients. Those protocols do not naturally use
HTTP. The user-agent has to specifically wrap the links in CONNECT for
squid.

Amos
Received on Thu Nov 29 2007 - 03:24:44 MST

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