Mark Fallon wrote:
>> On my machine at home when I do a straight connection they work fine.
> At work I have to make a connection through the http proxy. This however
> never seems to work. I have checked the proxy environment variable by
> using
> lynx. Has anybody else got these working using a http connection.
Do ye have a firewall at work? If ye do, there's the problem pretty much
right there, I'd say.
...Miles
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