[mythtv-users] Internet won't work thru proxy

Joseph A. Caputo jcaputo1 at comcast.net
Sun Dec 7 00:17:06 EST 2003


On Friday 05 December 2003 20:37, Guy McLean wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Joseph A. Caputo" <jcaputo1 at comcast.net>
> To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 11:16 AM
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Internet won't work thru proxy
> 
> 
> > On Wednesday 03 December 2003 13:27, Tony Maro wrote:
> > > Just FYI:
> > >
> > > I have a Squid proxy with Dansguardian in my house that is
> > > transparently redirected to from outgoing port 80's...
> > >
> > > in other words, a transparent filtering proxy.
> > >
> > > The URL's that MythTV access for weather, imdb, etc... all work from
> > > a browser, but within MythTV they fail if going thru the transparent
> > > proxy.
> > >
> > > I had to reconfigure my firewall to NOT redirect the outbound 80 for
> > > the IP that is my MythTV box.
> > 
> > The problem is more likely Dansguardian, I'd think.  MythVideo and 
> > MythWeather expect to parse an html file formatted in a particular way, 
> > I believe.  If Dansguardian is performing substitutions (removing ads, 
> > rewriting URLs, etc), this could screw up Myth.  Rather than remove 
> > your proxy from the loop, I'd just configure Squid to not pass content 
> > from msnbc.com or imdb.com through Dansguardian, but to simply return 
> > it unfiltered.
> > 
> > -JAC
> 
> I have the same problem on my system at home, running Dansguardian thru a
> transparent proxy to keep the kids out of places they should not be.
> 
> How would one go about doing that?
> 
> Could you direct me to a site that explains how to do this, I know enough
> about linux to follow simple instructions but not enough to figure out how
> to reconfigure squid to do this.
> 
> TIA
> Guy

Well, I don't know anything about Dansguardian, but if it's anything like some 
other filtering proxies I've seen, you should be able to configure it not to 
filter particular sites.

-JAC



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