Using proxy servers with PIE

[Guest W3bbo]

Orange's SafeGuard has the nasty habit of blocking almost every website out there. You can remove it easily enough, by calling them up to confirm your age by giving them your credit card number (or going into an Orange Shop with a passport or driving license photocard)

Thing is, despite being over 18, I don't have a credit-card (I don't really need one, my Visa Debit Card does me fine), but Orange only accepts credit-cards (even though you need to be 18 to get my particular brand of debit-card). This sucks righly, especially since the nearest Orange shop is 3 towns other.

But my Smartphone is my smartphone, no operator restrictions or lock-in here, I realised I could get PIE to route HTTP through a proxy server: problem solved. Thing is, there isn't a "HTTP Proxy Server" field on the PIE options screen. I fired up a registry editor on my WM5 PDA (not my smartphone) to see if there were any registry entries for HTTP proxies and couldn't find anything conclusive (there were a few references to proxies under IE's key but no actual "server address" field or anything)

My Smartphone is a 1st generation Orange SPV, I've had it for a while and it works fine, so you can't tell me to get a new WM5 one just for proxy server functionality :) )

So... how do I get my smartphone to route HTTP through an arbitrary proxy server and thus bypass the draconian "SafeGuard" walled-garden?

Edited December 3, 2006 by W3bbo