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# 8  
Old 01-06-2016
No, I'm not saying you cannot use that same server. I just don't know. Why don't you ask the owner/sysadmin of that server whether they support a http proxy service (and, if so, any documentation on how to use it, eg, port numbers, etc).
# 9  
Old 01-06-2016
Well, that's certainly worth a try. Unfortunately, while we've been discussing this, the problem has gone away, so I'll have to wait for the next outage.

I assume that every proxy may or may not function for any given protocol, and that, say, the machine I was using to forward my "SSH/SFTP" sessions may not work at all if specified as a proxy for, say, HTTP.

I also assume that the designation in the list of proxies on my machine that follows the "/" is the port name, and that I'd use "80" for "HTTP" or "443" for "HTTPS", and so on.

True?
# 10  
Old 01-06-2016
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I also assume that the designation in the list of proxies on my machine that follows the "/" is the port name, and that I'd use "80" for "HTTP" or "443" for "HTTPS", and so on.

True?
What is "your machine"? What O/S is it? What command or file are you looking at?

Some free proxies out there use the standard port 80 for http whilst others use port 8080. Normal port for https is indeed 443.

You need to get such information from the proxy provider to know how to configure it.
# 11  
Old 01-06-2016
The machine I'm using to forward SSH/SFTP is a Linux box.
# 12  
Old 01-12-2016
You've been very quiet. Did the problem just disappear?
# 13  
Old 01-12-2016
Actually, no. But it's intermittent -- annoyingly so. Comcast has reached out, but unfortunately left no number to get to the person handling it. Bottom line is that I simply want a backup strategy to prevent us from being caught by a problem that everyone seems to agree "shouldn't happen" but does :-). I would *like* to be able to setup the network preferences so that our machines would just automatically switch to the alternate path (a backup proxy I guess, from one of the lists you suggested). But I have no idea how to do that. So I'm looking around the web.

Thanks for asking!
# 14  
Old 01-12-2016
What flavour of Linux is it???? RedHat, Debian, CentOS, or what?

I appreciate why you posted this to the Emergency Support forum but now this is probably impeding getting you answers. Once we know what Linux it is I suggest that we ask admins/moderators to move this thread to the respective specific forum where the experts on that OS will be more likely to see it.
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