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Support => Technical Help: Problems BEFORE entering the game => Topic started by: Moraudin on April 21, 2003, 02:12:02 pm

Title: How to get the update to work through proxy?
Post by: Moraudin on April 21, 2003, 02:12:02 pm

Whenever I try to run the updater, it times out because it tries to connect to the internet directly on port 80. However, my ISP doesn\'t allow direct connections and requires that all http traffic goes through their proxy, which listens on port 8080. I\'ve noticed a file called updaterconfig.xml which seems to contain the settings needed for a http proxy, but no matter what values I fill into this file, updater.exe seems to ignore them. Is there any way to get the updater to use the proxy? Thanks.

Moraudin

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Post by: acraig on April 22, 2003, 02:02:21 am

At the moment the updater does not support the use of a proxy.  

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Post by: noone on April 22, 2003, 07:07:15 pm

i have exactly the same problem (do u use telenet btw?). and it\'s because the updater doesn\'t support proxies yet.

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Post by: Kundalf on April 22, 2003, 07:58:34 pm

:rolleyes: what providers do you guys use ?
I\'ve never heard of a provider not allowing direct internet access...

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Post by: Moraudin on April 23, 2003, 01:53:49 am

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Originally posted by noone
i have exactly the same problem (do u use telenet btw?). and it\'s because the updater doesn\'t support proxies yet.

Yup, the very same.

@ Kundalf: it\'s a belgian provider called telenet, and it\'s not unheard of for a provider to do that, although it\'s not very common practice. It\'s more common in corporate network environments.

Moraudin

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Post by: tuks on June 11, 2003, 10:49:08 am

make a bat script like this, and put it in the planeshift directory

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@SET HTTP_PROXY=\"http://your.http.proxy:8080\"

@echo Running the updater

@updater.exe



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Post by: Toigan on September 22, 2003, 12:47:59 pm

Hiya, I got a nice fix on that updater issue. Use a program called SocksCap on the client computer and launch the updater through that program to make it work.

I have a problem making the game work through SocksCap though. Keeps telling me server is down, when I know it isn\'t really down.

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Post by: goldmar on January 17, 2004, 07:45:01 pm

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Originally posted by tuks
make a bat script like this, and put it in the planeshift directory

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@SET HTTP_PROXY=\"http://your.http.proxy:8080\"

@echo Running the updater

@updater.exe



thanx!

it helped