[squid-users] Re: Squid 3.3.8 does not work with mobile app

csn233 wrote
> On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 1:56 PM, 0bj3ct <

> hsnvv@

> > wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am using Squid 3.3.8 on Ubuntu 13.10. I've configured squid to filter
>> wifi
>> network, which will be used mostly bu mobile users. When I use mobile
>> browser, squid filters all traffic thats fine, but it does not allow
>> internet to any mobile application. For example, I logged in to linkedin
>> android application, and there is no internet. How can I fix it?
>
> Don't know about Linkedin, but many mobile apps are not proxy-aware.
> They simply attempt to connect direct to the internet, ignoring the
> proxy settings on the phone. So those apps will not work with a normal
> proxy.
>
> However, those not proxy-aware apps do work with an
> intercept/transparent proxy, because it's as the word implies,
> transparent to them.

I have a transparent Squid. But no one mobile app works with it.

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