On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 11:22 PM, Gé Weijers <ge at weijers.org> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at 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. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com