Tutorial: SIT Network Proxy Setup
James Bunton on Apr 14th 2008
Web browser proxy settings for the School of IT network. Also instructions on how to make Unix command line utilities work with proxies.
Firefox settings
In Firefox 2.0, go to Edit->Preferences->Advanced->Network->Connection Settings
Put in the proxy details (host www-cache.it.usyd.edu.au, port 8000) and check the box marked “Use the same proxy for all protocols”. At the bottom there is a list of domains to not use a proxy, add:
, .usyd.edu.au
Alternatively you can use the autoconfigure URL:
http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/proxy.pac
Unix Environment Variables
See Command Line Proxy Tutorial for more details.
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