Guest leigh-bee Posted February 25, 2010 Report Posted February 25, 2010 So I moved away from android in the G1 days when I realised it just wasnt mature enough in comparison to iphone os at the time, however I came back with the nexus and its much more mature but the biggest bug bear for me back then was no proxy support *os wide* You may wonder why this is a problem, well where I work, theres barely any signal in the office I work in so general web usage is out of the question. also 3g is a joke, nearest 3g spot is 20 miles away, so I think theres significant reason for me to have this... Not that google will listen to little ol me :( So my question is: Those of you who sit behind a proxy/firewall configuration, what are your workarounds? I have an always on windows home server at home, I'm thinking a vpn connection there to act as a tunnel to the outside world.. But would love to hear on your ways of doing this? I could even be doing too much here.... In iphone os it was just a simple case of pressing an arrow and punching in a proxy addy and kapow - it works great, why cant 'droid users get that ??
Guest untrueparadox Posted March 19, 2010 Report Posted March 19, 2010 (edited) So I moved away from android in the G1 days when I realised it just wasnt mature enough in comparison to iphone os at the time, however I came back with the nexus and its much more mature but the biggest bug bear for me back then was no proxy support *os wide* You may wonder why this is a problem, well where I work, theres barely any signal in the office I work in so general web usage is out of the question. also 3g is a joke, nearest 3g spot is 20 miles away, so I think theres significant reason for me to have this... Not that google will listen to little ol me :) So my question is: Those of you who sit behind a proxy/firewall configuration, what are your workarounds? I have an always on windows home server at home, I'm thinking a vpn connection there to act as a tunnel to the outside world.. But would love to hear on your ways of doing this? I could even be doing too much here.... In iphone os it was just a simple case of pressing an arrow and punching in a proxy addy and kapow - it works great, why cant 'droid users get that ?? you can use dd-wrt on a separate lan access point to act as a transparent proxy. if its at work or at school dorm, i suppose you have access to an ethernet jack, so you can technically set up your own wifi hotspot to go through a squid proxy or any other proxy for that matter. you just have to make some changes to the ip table or use a firewall script. it might not be free, but at least you can do it for maybe $20 on a cheap router. the airlink101 ar430w costs little to nothing, you can get them off ebay for less than $20 shipped. Edited March 19, 2010 by untrueparadox
Guest tropmonky Posted March 19, 2010 Report Posted March 19, 2010 HMM, another thing I didn't know about the Android platform... no add-on download program to help with this?
Guest leigh-bee Posted March 19, 2010 Report Posted March 19, 2010 HMM, another thing I didn't know about the Android platform... no add-on download program to help with this? Nope - And its REAAALY annoying as Orange has no signal at the office -
Guest leigh-bee Posted March 22, 2010 Report Posted March 22, 2010 Just so's you knows theres a long topic on google groups concerning this - I feel its critical to get this working, and am suprised this hasnt been fixed in the lifecycle of Android so far.... http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1273 Please star the item so it raises googles attention also comes up with "Android 2.1 Proxy Wifi" in google as a #1 hit so its critical enough, just not enough for google themselves to notice!
Guest mistahd33 Posted July 1, 2010 Report Posted July 1, 2010 (edited) Just so's you knows theres a long topic on google groups concerning this - I feel its critical to get this working, and am suprised this hasnt been fixed in the lifecycle of Android so far.... http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1273 Please star the item so it raises googles attention also comes up with "Android 2.1 Proxy Wifi" in google as a #1 hit so its critical enough, just not enough for google themselves to notice! I have decided to write an artical about this (http://slashdot.org/~mistahd33/submissions) and send it to a good portion of leading tech publications to see if a little publicity will budge google on the topic. I encourage others to either do the same, or comment on my artical in support of it. Also I encourage people to check out the issue logged with google here: (http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1273 ) and click on the star at the topic of the artical to show google that you need this issue fixed. Edited July 1, 2010 by mistahd33
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