[GLLUG] Proxies with WPA

[Richard Houser]

Just guessing, but could Privoxy be configured to cache the failures
somehow, like negative dns queries?

On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 3:15 AM, Marr <wm33 at att.net> wrote:

> On Sunday 09 January 2011 00:11:02 Chick Tower wrote:
> > I figured out how to connect to a wireless access point that used
> > encryption, WPA to be specific, using wpa_supplicant.  However, the two
> > browsers I tried to use while connected to it, Firefox and Midori,
> > refused to resolve websites until I disabled the proxy server in the
> > browsers' settings.  ping had no problem resolving URLs; I may have been
> > successful with links, too.  I use Privoxy to block ads and cookies, and
> > it hasn't been a problem on unencrypted access points.  (Well, maybe it
> > has been once or twice.)
> >
> > I searched on the Privoxy and Arch Linux (the distro on my laptop)
> > websites, and did a quick search on the web in general, and found
> > absolutely no mention of any such problem.  Granted, this was the only
> > time I ever tried to connect to an encrypted access point, so maybe
> > there was a setting on the access point itself that caused this problem,
> > but does anyone know of any problems with proxies and WPA?
>
> Hi Chick,
>
> For months, I had a similar problem with having to occasionally disable the
> proxy (like you, I use Privoxy) in my browsers (Firefox and Konqueror) to
> access websites. Email and 'ping {some random site}' always worked fine,
> though. Mind you, this was not anything to do with any encrypted access
> points
> -- it was happening to me (inconsistently) after disconnecting and later
> re-
> connecting my DSL modem/router from the Internet -- but your symptoms sound
> so
> similar to mine that I thought I'd chime in here.
>
> You might want to try restarting Privoxy. After a long time of not
> understanding why I had to temporarily disable Privoxy, I recently found
> that
> a simple Privoxy restart seems to "cure all ills".  I don't know how Arch
> Linux does it, but if it's at all Slackware-like, the command should be
> something like this:
>
>   /etc/rc.d/rc.privoxy restart
>
> HTH.... Good luck!
>
> Regards,
> Bill
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