[gizzzzydrop]

(didnt want to make my first post something negative, but this is very important!)

I have recently moved to university in newcastle and found BBO wouldnt work....figured it was the uni firewall but this was not the case

Anyway, after a few emails or so i found out that it doesnt work on the proxy server because BBO isnt proxy configurable (hope that makes sense)

Is there nothing i can do about this? Im sure there must be other people having the same sort of problem


Gizzy

[barmar]

Proxies only work if you're using a protocol that they understand. The proxy server presumably is designed for web browsers, and only understands HTTP and a few other protocols used by web sites (FTP, streaming media, etc.). Since BBO uses its own, nonstandard protocol, it will not work with any proxies, other than a transparent, generic proxy like SOCKS.

[DrTodd13]

If you have a machine outside the firewall that you control then you can use the HTTP proxy to BBO. I have done it although I prefer the SOCKS proxy due to speed. My socks proxy also limits connections to ssh connections so if this is the case for you as well then you'll always need a machine outside the firewall.