Yea I can't really approach the tech guy again. He was amused, but he was also very unwilling [on policy grounds] to offer much information. He also has no control over the backend. The backend, I think, isn't even run from this physical location.
I feel like an idiot for having said proxy server earlier, I just want to absolve myself. I knew that wouldn't work but only one of these (I can't remember which) allows selection/deselection of relaying [for HTTP and HTTPS, relevantly].
Classilla - at least as I understand it - only has a limited number of preset User Agent preferences. So, for instance, I have my Firefox User Agent string ready to go but I can't actually add it unless I need access to a specific preference file. I also don't have ResEdit on the machine [not sure if that's relevant]. So I haven't gone browsing through the preference files.
Not convinced this is the issue, but I'm open to help on how to edit the User Agent presets on Opera 5 or Classilla 9.3.2. As far as I can tell - and as I read them - that won't violate the university's usage policies.
I feel like an idiot for having said proxy server earlier, I just want to absolve myself. I knew that wouldn't work but only one of these (I can't remember which) allows selection/deselection of relaying [for HTTP and HTTPS, relevantly].
Classilla - at least as I understand it - only has a limited number of preset User Agent preferences. So, for instance, I have my Firefox User Agent string ready to go but I can't actually add it unless I need access to a specific preference file. I also don't have ResEdit on the machine [not sure if that's relevant]. So I haven't gone browsing through the preference files.
Not convinced this is the issue, but I'm open to help on how to edit the User Agent presets on Opera 5 or Classilla 9.3.2. As far as I can tell - and as I read them - that won't violate the university's usage policies.