App-specific proxy settings?

dbfriends · 07-17-2008, 05:44 AM

Hi all,

I've been playing with SSH tunnelling and proxying over the last couple of days and have things up and running how I'd like. The next step is to get specific applications to use proxy settings - while the others simply ignore them. I can obviously do this for Firefox, which has its own proxy dialog, but I wondered if there was anything I could install which would allow me to use my proxy settings for only a couple of apps?

Thanks in advance!

operator207 · 07-17-2008, 11:40 AM

I know adium has the ability to use a proxy. I have done this before. It might help to tell us what apps you want to use with the proxy. Though all we could do is look in the prefs for those apps, and tell you if they had proxy settings, just like you could do yourself.

dbfriends · 07-17-2008, 03:58 PM

Many thanks...

I was trying to get things set up so the PandoraBoy app would route via a proxy, while the rest of my traffic wouldn't. I ended up setting up a .pac file, so that instead of being application-based, it's site-based... any traffic to pandora.com is bounced via the proxy in any app which uses the system-wide preferences.

07-17-2008, 05:44 AM	#1
dbfriends Registered User Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 2	App-specific proxy settings? Hi all, I've been playing with SSH tunnelling and proxying over the last couple of days and have things up and running how I'd like. The next step is to get specific applications to use proxy settings - while the others simply ignore them. I can obviously do this for Firefox, which has its own proxy dialog, but I wondered if there was anything I could install which would allow me to use my proxy settings for only a couple of apps? Thanks in advance!

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07-17-2008, 11:40 AM	#2
operator207 Major Leaguer Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 446	I know adium has the ability to use a proxy. I have done this before. It might help to tell us what apps you want to use with the proxy. Though all we could do is look in the prefs for those apps, and tell you if they had proxy settings, just like you could do yourself.

07-17-2008, 03:58 PM	#3
dbfriends Registered User Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 2	Many thanks... I was trying to get things set up so the PandoraBoy app would route via a proxy, while the rest of my traffic wouldn't. I ended up setting up a .pac file, so that instead of being application-based, it's site-based... any traffic to pandora.com is bounced via the proxy in any app which uses the system-wide preferences.