Re: Global Proxy Settings

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

yes

On 30 Dec 2001, James M. Cape wrote:

> On Sun, 2001-12-30 at 14:20, Sander Vesik wrote:
> > On 29 Dec 2001, James M. Cape wrote:
> > 
> > > Ok, this layering, is this an adequate map:
> > > 
> > > [Local] -> [SOCKS] -> [HTTP] -> *Internet*
> > > 
> > > Could it also be:
> > > 
> > > [Local] -> [HTTP] -> [SOCKS] -> *Internet*
> > > 
> > 
> > Yes - and no , not on the user side. Only if you are running say a proxy
> > server that uses socks to connect to the internetB
> 
> So the proxy server handles the [HTTP] -> [SOCKS] case, but the client
> must handle the [SOCKS] -> [HTTP] case... Is this correct?
> 
>     Jim Cape
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