Trouble with proxies

[David Ascher]

On Fri, 30 Apr 1999 befletch at my-dejanews.com wrote:

> Hello again everyone,
> 
> I have tried all the suggestions people have sent me, and I have tried all
> the local debugging I could think of, but I still can't see the world from
> behind my proxy server.  Can anyone find a possible solution to this?  I've
> had to modify my URL lines with (colin-slash-slash) to get past DejaNews'
> Draconian posting filters:
> 
> 
> C:\>SET http_proxy=http(colin-slash-slash)10.187.200.230

I found I had to set the port of the proxy server (in our case 8080), so:

C:\>SET http_proxy=http://10.187.200.230:8080

or whatever

[FYI, that it's "colon", not "colin"] 

--david ascher