Re: [squid-users] Using Squid as a proxy to change network devices' properties instead of web broswers'?

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:38:44PM +1200, Amos Jeffries wrote:
> Phillip Pi wrote:
> >Question about this proxycfg.exe in XP: Does this work for all Internet
> >program? I can get it to work with IE (v6-v7) and CDBurnerXP (to
> >download its update for the program), but not Firefox. I read that the
> >program has to know winHTTP. Am I understanding this correctly? If so,
> >then how do I know which programs support that to do proxy?
>
> The command is born from the fact that MS use more than one 'web access'
> DLL API for their web backend(s) in Windows XP. IE sets the config for
> one of the DLL, certain apps (WU amongst them) use the other library.
> The command syncs the settings used by both DLL, nothing more.
>
> So the result is that various MS software are 'fixed' and start working
> again with a proxy or after a proxy config is changed. But most non-MS
> software is not affected.

Thanks. Is there a list of non-MS programs that use this? It seems like
it is WinHTTP API?
Received on Thu Apr 16 2009 - 13:15:05 MDT