What is an IE proxy?

[Henrythewound]

I have tried searching the forums for the NASA Worldwind program, but I cant get a sufficient answer there. The line in question is pasted below.

> Are you using a proxy? Check your IE proxy settings. WW can use proxys, but has trouble with authenticating proxys.

How do I check this? If anyone here uses the new worldwind 1.3, do you have problems with it not downloading higher res images of an area?

Thx, Joe

 

[Ausm]

I would tell ya but I would have to kill ya...

Ausm

 

[Henrythewound]

5 out of 4 people don't understand fractions.

thats great lol,

yeah thx anyways, Im sure someone will tell me w/o requiring my demise

 

[whalen]

Networking forum?

With a web proxy server, all of your requests for web pages are sent to a "proxy" server, which then sends the requests out to the website for you. So you communicate with the proxy server, and the proxy server communicates with the webserver.

Some ISPs use transparent proxies, so you may not know if you are actually using a proxy or not.

You can check for a manual proxy setting in IE by clicking Tools | Internet Options, selecting the connections tab, and clicking the LAN Settings button.

 

[KingPhil]

Originally posted by: Henrythewound
I have tried searching the forums for the NASA Worldwind program, but I cant get a sufficient answer there. The line in question is pasted below.

> Are you using a proxy? Check your IE proxy settings. WW can use proxys, but has trouble with authenticating proxys.

How do I check this? If anyone here uses the new worldwind 1.3, do you have problems with it not downloading higher res images of an area?

Thx, Joe

Proxy..... are you filtering your internet thru a different server? We used a proxy to filter web content. Basically, we pointed the browsers to a different server........

 

[Henrythewound]

I use a T1 or something like that from a university. I think they have some restrictions on certain types of downloading (ie file sharing programs don't work etc). I'll fiddle around with some of the options. Sorry is this was the wrong forum to ask. Thx for the suggestions

Joe

 

[Henrythewound]

I checked the LAN settings, I am not using a proxy unless the university imposes one on me. I guess its possible there's just a bug in the worldwind version I just downloaded (its still pretty new)

thx again

 

[FoBoT]

how does the PC you are using connect to the internet? does it go through a firewall/NAT/router or directly?

that is what they are asking, is what type of IP connectivity do you have to the internet, what is between your PC and the internet. sometimes networks are setup so that all internet traffic is blocked/firewalled and the only means to connect to public/internet IP addresses is through a single computer that runs a "proxy" software . your browser and applications on your PC have to be setup to go through that single PC (the proxy) , some applications like browsers do this well/natively and some applications cannot do it at all. there are different types of proxys, some require authentication, some are open/anonymous. some are "transparent" and you don't even have to tell your browser/apps about it/point them to it, it really varies alot

this is probably a question for the networking forum

 

[Henrythewound]

OK, I'll post there