[sldev] Re: [VIEWER] Proxy support in SL client

[John Hurliman]

Rui Granja wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I work for a financial institution which aims to operate in SL. Since
> our corporate policy mandates that internet access be performed
> through a proxy server (either HTTP or SOCKS) and considering that
> proxy support seems to be a popular request for users in corporate
> environments I was wondering if there are any plans to provide this
> feature.
>
> I'm aware of both the SLSquid and the openvpn/yourfreedom workarounds
> but they do not seem to be an option in our case. I've tried using a
> socksifier but haven´t managed to get that working yet (unlike many
> other applications that lack native socks proxy support it doesn't
> work out of the box).
>
> Has anyone in a similar environment managed to get SL running?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Rui

I haven't tried it myself but here are some instructions for using SL 
with Proxifier; you should be able to ignore the extra steps about 
creating an SL account and using the third party ShoopedLife client. 
http://tetravalency.org/SL/unbannable.htm

John Hurliman