Uniform Proxy Settings

[Chuck Anderson]

On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 08:23:13PM +0530, Kulbir Saini wrote:
>> One suggestion to get around this would be to run a proxy on localhost  
>> and make all proxy aware applications use that in their default 
>> install. This wouldn't actually have to do any caching - just act as a 
>> common point at which behaviour could actually be changed without the  
>> cooperation of the programs.
>
>   This sounds good but some work environments doesn't allow you to run  
> proxy on your own machine. e.g. Consider an office env in a  
> multinational or a university where running proxy on every single  
> machine violates the computer usage policy.

I don't see how it would matter.  The proxy would be an internal-only 
abstraction of how the system talks to the rest of the net.  It 
wouldn't be visible or usable from outside the local system.