On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 11:22 PM, Gé Weijers ge@weijers.org wrote:
On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
However, I can start a chrome connection to gmail and it just goes direct (which happens to work, I just prefer the proxy which will use a different outbound route). If I go to any non-google site, it uses the proxy and will pop up the expected authentication dialog on the first connection. Does anyone know (a) why it bypasses the proxy when going to a google site, (b) why it doesn't have its own internal proxy settings, or (c) how to fix it?
Did you configure the proxy for HTTPS? Gmail uses HTTPS exclusively these days, the certificate is pinned (hard coded) in Chrome to prevent spoofing, maybe the protocol is too. Time for 'tcpdump'?
Yes, that turned out to be the problem. I had only set http in the system settings and must have bookmarked/saved the https url so it didn't even need the initial redirect.