using folding at home with a passworded proxy

folding at home is currently(FAH6.30-win32-SMP) broken to password enabled proxy server settings, although the user can configuration the proxy by 'Folding@home-Win32-x86.exe -configonly' , but only non-password enabled proxy will work. Using a password enabled proxy with get a HTTP 407 error.

using 'localproxy' can start a local service(no password proxy) and point to the password enabled proxy, from now on, FAH can connect to local proxy 127.0.0.1:8000 with no authentication.

download it from google code project GAppProxy, http://code.google.com/p/gappproxy/

configuration of proxy.conf, using notepad,
listen_port = 8000
# If local proxy needs authentication:
local_proxy = user:passwd@host:port
# remove the 'sharp' before local_proxy to enable that line, and modify user, passwd, host, port to the password-ed proxy

then simply run 'proxy.exe' , then it is up and running

testing the proxy,
in internet explorer, tools -> options -> connections -> lan settings -> use a proxy server for your lan -> modify address and port
in firefox , tools -> options -> advanced -> network -> settings -> manual proxy configuration -> modify address and port

there will be settings and traffic message in the stdout in the command prompt, in order not to show any output, add 1>nul 2>nul as parametes, so it is 'proxy 1>nul 2>nul'

and I always input the ip address 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost, because localhost maybe resolved as ::1 in a IPv6 enabled environment


hope it will help, happy fah