Using LivePC Engine with a Proxy
Submitted by Andy Berkheimer on October 24, 2006 - 3:54pm.
Update, November 10, 2006: our Beta 6 release will automatically import your proxy settings from Windows, so this workaround is no longer necessary.
We've been getting a number of questions from users having trouble using the LivePC Engine behind a proxy. This is one reason for the "descriptor not found" dialog that appears when running a LivePC.
Right now we have a developer setting to send our software's http requests through a proxy, if you know the hostname and port number for the proxy server.
Create a text file called C:\Document and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\moka5\Engine\env\http_proxy (make sure that it is just http_proxy, not http_proxy.txt), where USERNAME is the name of your Windows XP account. The contents of this file should be a single line with the hostname and port number of your proxy server, such as:
proxy.example.com:3128
You must restart the LivePC Engine for this setting to take effect.
We are working on automatically importing the windows system settings (including autoproxy config, etc) for a future update.
-andy
Note that as of beta 6, the
Submitted by John Whaley on November 9, 2006 - 12:12am.
Note that as of beta 6, the LivePC Engine will automatically use your Windows proxy settings, so you probably won't need to manually configure them any more.
If you would still like to manually configure them, press Ctrl-F8 in the LivePC Engine window to bring up the (secret) advanced settings menu. Setting the proxy information in that window will override the automatic Windows settings.
-John
If your proxy requires
If your proxy requires authentication, you can create a text file "C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\moka5\LivePC Player\env\http_proxyuserpwd" with contents "[user name]:[password]", like this:
john:foobar
You can also create a file "http_proxytype" to be one of "http", "socks4", or "socks5". It defaults to "http".
-John