Fighting with proxy - home vs. office

Hmmmm, I am wondering if everyone have same problem as I do - at work, we are using proxy server. Internet Explorer is working fine - it can dynamically enable\disable proxy, same applies for applications that can use IE as proxy configuration source - however there are many applications where you must manually enable\disable proxy.

 For example Miranda or Last.FM - and I really hate this :(

 One of my friends have very nice idea - what if you could have local proxy (on your laptop) and some scripts that will enable\disable master proxy for this? I like this idea, because you have only one connection to manage and you will point all your applications to this local proxy.

 Right now I am looking for best candidate for this - free local proxy, that supports master proxy and have configuration in registry\file or supports some scripting interfaces...

 Do you know any such products? Let me know... If I will implement this successfully, I will post step-by-step procedures on this blog.

 Martin

Published Thu, Nov 22 2007 9:33 by martin
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# re: Fighting with proxy - home vs. office

Martin, this comment comes waaaay after your posting, but I thought this might be handy.

I use Firefox and an Add-on called FoxyProxy:

http://foxyproxy.mozdev.org/

And it lets me configure multiple proxy servers, and set the proxy based on wildcards or regular expressions.

It also puts an icon in the Status Bar so that I can manually switch to a specific proxy. Nice!

If you have a similar solution for IE7, I'm all ears.

Friday, July 11, 2008 3:44 PM by Andrew from Vancouver

# re: Fighting with proxy - home vs. office

Heya Andrew :)

that's not exactly what I am looking for :( For IE7, you have similar functionality built into IE7Pro (ie7pro.blogspot.com/.../use-ie7pro-as-proxy-switcher.html).

I would rather have "Local Proxy" that will allow me to easily switch (Local Proxy -> Direct internet, Local Proxy -> Proxy1, Local Proxy -> Proxy2). Local Proxy should of course run locally on my computer.

That would allow me to change proxy ONCE for all programs (in case I will point that program to my Local Proxy).

That would easily solve all my problem at once. Currently I have home office, so I don't have any problems with proxies at all :)

Sunday, July 13, 2008 7:09 AM by martin

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Tuesday, March 17, 2009 9:09 PM by Betty

# re: Fighting with proxy - home vs. office

Hi Betty,

glad to hear that :) This blog is however abandoned - I now use only martinzugec.blogspot.com

Wednesday, March 18, 2009 2:30 AM by martin