MAC OS X 10.6 Safari 4 Proxy problems
Sun, 11/08/2009 - 00:09 — atopuzov
Everything works from Firefox. After setting up system wide proxy I get:
Safari can’t connect to the proxy server.
Safari can’t open the page “http://www.bbc.co.uk/” because Safari can’t connect to the web proxy server (HTTP). To change your proxy settings, open Safari Preferences, click Advanced, and then click Change Settings. For help with this problem, contact your system administrator.
Well if FireFox worked fine
Well if FireFox worked fine there should be something wrong with your Safari config. Make sure the proxy IP address and port number was entered correctly. Double check these details.
Fixed, but not everything works as expected
It works fine now. I have created a new location and then configured the proxy and this fixes the problem. Now I'm able to view iPlayer with Safari, and it seems fine. But when using iPlayer Desktop to download files it becomes unusable, max speed is around 256kbits (if a stream of 796kbps works fine trough browser based iPlayer, it's surely not a problem on my side). I have left it to download during the whole night, but after 15h of downloading it still wasn't finished.
traffic shaping
But when using iPlayer Desktop to download files it becomes unusable, max speed is around 256kbits (if a stream of 796kbps works fine trough browser based iPlayer, it's surely not a problem on my side). I have left it to download during the whole night, but after 15h of downloading it still wasn't finished.
I am afraid we have to use traffic shaping in order to optimize and guarantee performance, lower latency, and/or increase usable bandwidth for all customers. That is we have to limit the download speed in order to guarantee best performance to people watching the streams live.
If your downloader has been working for 15 hours at a 256Kbps speed it downloaded nearly 1.7GB of data. If there were no traffic shaping you would download that amount of data in an hour or so BUT nobody else would be able to use the proxy during that time.
We think this is quite fair to use traffic shaping. Of course we will consider increasing the download speed limit in future.
at the end all good ;)
Ok. I tought that was the reason (traffic shaping), it's better that the stream gets played out without glitches and the downloads last longer (only problem though it did not maintain the top speed of 256kbits all the time so it took long to download). So actually i will not use Safari and system wide setting (plus a big list of exclusions) to use iPlayer but direct foxyproxy to use only those specific domains with the paid service. So basically iPlayer Desktop is not usable at this moment (at least for downloading HD video which I can't playback live trough the browser)
Even with those few problems and misunderstandings i think this service is great, and I must admit that the only reason I chose you over the other similar services is that you support the FoxyProxy.
Thank you, atopuzov!! Eric
Thank you, atopuzov!!
Eric Jung
Author
FoxyProxy