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hotmail login error through proxy - rajesh

We have computers connected to inernet through a proxy server. OS on the PCs are win95 and 98 & browser is Netscape & IE5. Now some of the PCs, we are getting a hotmail login error after entring account details. If we bypass the proxy, hotmail accountlogin can be done. other sites r working fine. what could be the problem. pls. help

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r2r

check proxy addresses to access to your server. it should be the same

Arun_dl

Well Mr. Rajesh Nair I have faced the same problem what you have to do in the connection tab of internet options under tools menu you have to give socks and secure proxy port address as 1080 / the port number of the socks and secure proxy.

Try it out and give a feed back

ArunKumar

cococan

Arun is right but if your proxy is sophisticated enough and works with all protocols transparently, you do not need to use socks. I hate socks for some reason. I would first look at the other PCs settings and compare to the ones giving you problem. If the computer OSs' gateway are set to your proxy and your proxy allow HTTPS in addition to all the other protocols, all your systems should be able to access Internet. Also, compare the browser settings as Arun_dl suggested.

Regards

Huseyin

RAJESHNAIR

ASKER

We r using a wingate proxy server on Win NT 4.0. I have tried both the options in client side PCs. But hotmail login is still working. Other web based mails r working fine. POP3 through the wingate proxy is also working.

RAJESHNAIR

ASKER

Please read my above comment as hotmail loging is still 'not' working

Arun_dl

Rajesh, really I dont understand what could be the problem bcoz I have faced the same problem what I did was explined above. If still problem continues I think manually some one has to check the working of the proxy.

Anyway bet of luck

Just try it.

Arun

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