Re: How to block ads using hosts file -and- ISP's web proxy?

From: Devdas Bhagat (devdas_at_users.sourceforge.net)
Date: 07/20/03


Date: 20 Jul 2003 16:35:38 GMT

On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 14:54:10 GMT, YK <YKnot@home.invalid> poured into the
usenet group comp.security.firewalls:
> Tony wrote:
<snip>
>> What is happening / what am I missing? Or simpy spoken: how to use an
>> ISP's web proxy and still benefit from the hosts file trick and
>> without using any 3rd party software?
IE has an option to have certain domains bypass the proxy.
Mozilla has it in
Edit -> preferences -> proxies -> no proxy for

Devdas Bhagat