Re: TI-H: linux...
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Re: TI-H: linux...
Your browser doesn't determine whether you go through the proxy server, you always
go through the proxy, it up to AOL to set the proxy to inhibit certain access.
Using Netscape, IE, AOL webbrowser, WS_FTP, mIRC, WIRC, etc. They all travel the
same wire
Adam Fritzler wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Brian Watson wrote:
>
> >
> > TGaArdvark@aol.com (TGaArdvark@aol.com) wrote:
> >
> > >Precisely why I use Netscape (that and I hate MSIE).
> >
> > If you're connecting via AOL and using Netscape, you're still going
> > through their server and proxy...
>
> Uhmmmm...No. When you connect to AOL, you get an IP address assigned to
> you individually. The proxy only gets used when you use AOL's obsolete
> integrated browser.
>
> You can connect to AOL with the AOL client, start one of the many ftp
> servers for windows, and ftp into your AOL client. You can also ping it
> and do all that wonderful stuff.
>
> If you connect to AOL and use Netscape, you are NOT using the proxy. You
> are not censored from anything. You get logged as being from your dynamic
> IP. It's no different than dialing into your average PPP-based ISP and
> doing whatever. You get your own IP, but it's dynamic.
>
> af
>
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