Proxy

Once again Windows know exactly how to surprise me. I’ve added entries to the Windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts on my remote Windows 2008 Server. The entry was resolved properly as it could be tested from the command line (ping, telnet, etc.) but in IE and FF browsers it didn’t work. DNS flushing, clearing browsers data or restart didn’t help a bit. It occurs that the IE had a proxy settings and apparently (when any proxy is set) it refuses to take hosts file under consideration....

Sometimes, there is a need to use SOCKS Proxy for connection even if an application itself isn’t providing such feature. If you’re working on Windows you can use FreeCap which allows you to put your applications into FreeCap “sandbox”. Every time you run app from this “sandbox” it is sent through the SOCKS proxy you set as an configuration option. Update: Recently I’ve heard that it is somewhat impossible to execute this application on Windows 7....