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Subject: Re: HELP with IE Network Problem...
From: Zoa_Chien (zoachienSECURAX.ORG)
Date: Sun Jul 23 2000 - 15:06:47 CDT

Something a bit related..

Did anyone else noticed suspicious behaviour with the proxy option in IE ?
I noticed several times that even with a proxy address filled in, and
enabled, IE sometimes does NOT use the proxy (guess when the proxy times
out, IE skips the proxy settings instead of giving some error like Opera
does) .. and if the proxy option is filled in, but disabled, IE sometimes
does use the proxy anyway.

Zoa_Chien
zoachiensecurax.org

>I'm having the same problem with IE 5 on Win98. I don't have
>any exclusions setup, just a squid proxy running on a Linux
>box. IE decides to not use my proxy when I start it up, but
>it remembers all the proxy settings. And to fix it, all I
>have to do is click "OK" in IE's proxy settings. It's quite
>annoying, but I can't find a permanent fix. You would think
>Microsoft would catch a bug this big, but then again it is
>Microsoft after all. Netscape likes to crash and/or screw up
>all the time, so sometimes I have to use IE. Netscape for
>Linux works a lot better, but sometimes I have to
>use Windows. Maybe I should install Opera again...
>
>-Weston
>
>---
>
>I know this may be off topic but I was hoping that
>there might be someone out there that may be able to
>help me.
>
>At my job we have IE set up on our machines using our
>network. In the network settings in IE, we have proxy
>servers put in along with an exclusion list on the
>bottom. We can get that set up fine, and IE works
>without a problem, but then usually the next day, when
>we log into our machines, the proxy's and exclusion
>list mysteriously dissapears. Other times, it will
>still be there, but IE wont work at all. We are using
>NT 4.0 with SP5. Does anyone out there know what can
>be done to keep the settings in there? Or what may be
>causing them to disspear?
>
>Thanks in advance!!
>
>Regards,
>
>Adam
>
>
>
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