OS 10.4 - Connection Conundrum

hughvane · hughvane #1 (**permalink**)

09-05-2008, 01:24 AM

I couldn't connect to some sites eg. Seatubes wouldn't work, said there was no internet connection, Apple Update said the same thing, but I had no trouble whatsoever with sites like this one, YouTube, BBC, plus several others. So what gives? HTTP Proxy, that's what.

*But*, as I recall, prior to my eMac's nervous breakdown, its eventual repair, and then reinstallation of Tiger, that proxy option was checked, and all connections worked just fine. Anyway, unchecking the HTTP option cured the problem.

What does that HTTP Proxy actually do? Any thoughts, analysis or diagnosis from afar?

Dysfunction · Dysfunction #2 (**permalink**)

09-05-2008, 01:44 AM

a proxy server allows for quite a few things from a back end perspective, but we can skip that and basically say that the proxy server actually talks to the host for you. So something like this..

Naturally, if there's no proxy in the middle... your requests will go nowhere

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Member Since: May 18, 2008 Location: Banks Peninsula, New Zealand Posts: 3,244 Mac Specs: MacMini 2.4, 4 Gb, OS 10.6.8; MacBook 2.4, 2 Gb, OS 10.5.8; G4 eMac 1.25, 2 Gb, OS 10.4.11	09-05-2008, 01:24 AM I couldn't connect to some sites eg. Seatubes wouldn't work, said there was no internet connection, Apple Update said the same thing, but I had no trouble whatsoever with sites like this one, YouTube, BBC, plus several others. So what gives? HTTP Proxy, that's what. But, as I recall, prior to my eMac's nervous breakdown, its eventual repair, and then reinstallation of Tiger, that proxy option was checked, and all connections worked just fine. Anyway, unchecking the HTTP option cured the problem. What does that HTTP Proxy actually do? Any thoughts, analysis or diagnosis from afar?
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