[WEB4LIB] Proxy Server and Windows Media Player

[Cantona, Eric]

Sounds like you want your default gateway to redirect packets to the proxy
server.

Iptables (netfilter) can accomplish this with something like:

iptables -A nat POSTROUTING -s 10.10.1.0/24 -p tcp --dport 1755 -j redirect
--to-source 10.10.1.15


in this example 10.10.1.0 is your LAN and 1.15 is your squid server

EC

-----Original Message-----
From: NG, Jason [mailto:NGJ at mls.lib.il.us]
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 11:27 AM
To: Brown, Pamela
Cc: Levine, Jenny; ECantona at plcmc.org
Subject: RE: [WEB4LIB] Proxy Server and Windows Media Player


Eric

I am able to proxy the http and windows media player traffic through the
squid proxy server, however it requires a user to either manually change the
browser proxy setting or download a script to change it automatically.  
These users are Internet users not LAN users and I want to setup something
like transparent proxy which does not require user to change the browser
proxy setting.  

Thanks 



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Jason NG
IT Services
Direct: (630) 734-5167   
Fax: (630) 734-5050





-----Original Message-----
From: Brown, Pamela 
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 9:21 AM
To: NG, Jason
Cc: Levine, Jenny
Subject: FW: [WEB4LIB] Proxy Server and Windows Media Player


Jason, if this person makes sense to you, feel free to communicate with him
directly.  No need to be to be a barrier in the middle.

**********
Pamela P. Brown
IT Services Director
Metropolitan Library System 
125 Tower Drive, Burr Ridge, IL 60527
direct:  (630) 734-5126    fax:  (630) 734-5050
Note my new email address that's only 1 letter different!



-----Original Message-----
From: Cantona, Eric [mailto:ECantona at plcmc.org]
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 7:28 AM
To: Brown, Pamela
Subject: RE: [WEB4LIB] Proxy Server and Windows Media Player


Does the proxy server proxy non-http?

If not, make sure you pipe the media content through http.

Also, try using the manual settings in the player for the proxy.

-----Original Message-----
From: Brown, Pamela [mailto:BrownP at mls.lib.il.us]
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 6:38 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Proxy Server and Windows Media Player


Do you have experience letting remote users access multimedia through a
proxy server?  Our new proxy server works fine for browser-based access, but
Windows Media Player isn't picking up the proxy settings when launched.  I
would appreciate hearing from anyone who can advise about how to fix this.
Thanks in advance.

**********
Pamela P. Brown
IT Services Director
Metropolitan Library System 
125 Tower Drive, Burr Ridge, IL 60527
direct:  (630) 734-5126    fax:  (630) 734-5050