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Configuring Proxo to work with Syncplicity - possible??
Sep. 13, 2009, 05:48 AM (This post was last modified: Sep. 13, 2009 06:20 AM by ral77.)
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Configuring Proxo to work with Syncplicity - possible??
Greetings Proxomitarians...

Longish post ahead, sorry....

New Proxomitron user here, still wobbling a little on my new Proxo feet, but enjoying..

I've spent the last hour or so trying to get Proxo to work with Syncplicity (online file synch/backup service), with no luck. Syncplicity has a configuration page, where the user can specify if they use a proxy, says it takes the settings for proxy use from Internet Explorer's settings. Okay... so IE is set to use Proxo, port 8080, and Syncplicity reflects that setting. Using Sidki's config file, with the most recent update, it seemed that Syncplicity wasn't able to get past just making contact with the main page at syncplicity.com. Besides the main page, there were some other locations (like ds-hammer.syncplicity.com/ and xml.syncplicity.com/) that Proxo was trying to make contact with but not getting much of a response from.

Okay, says me to myself, dunno quite what's going on here, but I'll try adding "syncplicity.com/" to the Bypass list, and see what that does. It didn't seem to do much. Syncplicity's icon showed itself as being "online" at that point, but still no file transfers were taking place. So... I edited a few more entries into the Bypass list, one at a time:
*.syncplicity.com/
xml.syncplicity.com/
(http://www.|)syncplicity.com/
and lastly ds-hammer.syncplicity.com/, which I guessed to perhaps be one of the servers that syncplicity uses for file transfers.

Still no luck transferring files.

Then it occurred to me that perhaps Syncplicity uses an FTP protocol for the file transfer process (or maybe some other protocol that I'm not familiar with), so I configured Internet Explorer to use a proxy for ALL protocalls, not just HTTP and HTTPS. Still no go.

Of course, Syncplicity works fine if I just tell Proxo to go into "Bypass everything" mode, but since Syncplicity is a background service that I just leave running all the time while I'm connected to the net and browsing, it's pretty useless to have Proxo running, but set to Bypass all the time.

Anyone here use Syncplicity?? Any suggestions?? As I said, I'm using Sidki's config files, IE6 (old version of IE due to screwy compatibility issue with Quickbooks) or Firefox, XP Home Edition, SP3...

Any assistance or insight is appreciated.
Thanks in advance for any thoughts on this...

Edit, a few minutes later: Hmmm... looking at the HTTP Message Log File, I see that there's a line in there that seems to be saying that the referer is Slashdot.org. I know that may be a default that the config files set to keep sites from tracing whatever site I was on immediately previous to Syncplicity, and perhaps Syncplicity wants to hear something that's true rather than "made up" for the referer. I did try switching config modes, trying "light", "standard" and "advanced", just to see if any of those settings made a difference in having that show up in the log, but it didn't. Would that referer value be likely to upset a service like Syncplicity? Would I need to set up a URL-specific exception to having that referer line send a ficticious source??

The bit of logfile where I see it says:
+++GET 887+++
CONNECT / HTTP/1.1
Host: xml.syncplicity.com
Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
Referer: http://slashdot.org/search/referrer-karm...q=Big+Bang
User-Agent:
+++CLOSE 887+++

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Sep. 13, 2009, 03:14 PM (This post was last modified: Sep. 13, 2009 04:45 PM by JJoe.)
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RE: Configuring Proxo to work with Syncplicity - possible??
Do you need to filter the service?

Quote:Install it on one computer and all your important documents, photos, and music are backed up online, complete with remote access and aversion history. Install it on additional computers and Syncplicity will synchronize your files -- your important files will be wherever you are.

(Sep. 13, 2009 05:48 AM)ral77 Wrote:  Syncplicity has a configuration page, where the user can specify if they use a proxy,

The best choice could be to have Syncplicity use a direct connection.

Otherwise, we'll need the addresses Syncplicity uses with Proxo in bypass.
Eventually, those may be found at http://local.ptron/.pinfo/urls/

HTH

Edit:
The addresses found in http://local.ptron/.pinfo/urls/ with Proxo filtering the service could be enough.
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Sep. 14, 2009, 04:09 AM (This post was last modified: Sep. 14, 2009 03:01 PM by JJoe.)
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RE: Configuring Proxo to work with Syncplicity - possible??
(Sep. 13, 2009 05:48 AM)ral77 Wrote:  Okay, says me to myself, dunno quite what's going on here, but I'll try adding "syncplicity.com/" to the Bypass list, and see what that does. It didn't seem to do much. Syncplicity's icon showed itself as being "online" at that point, but still no file transfers were taking place. So... I edited a few more entries into the Bypass list, one at a time:
*.syncplicity.com/
xml.syncplicity.com/
(http://www.|)syncplicity.com/
and lastly ds-hammer.syncplicity.com/, which I guessed to perhaps be one of the servers that syncplicity uses for file transfers.

(Sep. 13, 2009 05:48 AM)ral77 Wrote:  Edit, a few minutes later: Hmmm... looking at the HTTP Message Log File, I see that there's a line in there that seems to be saying that the referer is Slashdot.org. I know that may be a default that the config files set to keep sites from tracing whatever site I was on immediately previous to Syncplicity, and perhaps Syncplicity wants to hear something that's true rather than "made up" for the referer. I did try switching config modes, trying "light", "standard" and "advanced", just to see if any of those settings made a difference in having that show up in the log, but it didn't. Would that referer value be likely to upset a service like Syncplicity? Would I need to set up a URL-specific exception to having that referer line send a ficticious source??

The bit of logfile where I see it says:
+++GET 887+++
CONNECT / HTTP/1.1
Host: xml.syncplicity.com
Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
Referer: http://slashdot.org/search/referrer-karm...q=Big+Bang
User-Agent:
+++CLOSE 887+++

User-Agent is empty?

The set is setting the referer.
So the bypass entries must be incorrect.
Could be https problems.

Try just
([^/]++.|)syncplicity.com/
([^/]++.|)syncplicity.com:

HTH

Edit:
"[^/]++." to "([^/]++.|)"
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