11-22-2006 18:07
If you're going require people to acknowledge an agreement, then make damn sure you can display it. I'm behind a firewall that doesn't require a proxy for SL, but does for HTTP. SL ignores my HTTP proxy settings (whether the OS ones or the ones set in Firefox... hey, I thought you were using the same engine, folks).

Setting SL's proxy (which only appears to let me choose a socks proxy) lets the "I accept" button come up, but no web pages do - including the agreement - so I can't say I've technicaly agreed to it. I tried finding it from the web pages in-world, but no dice. I ran into this problem with the SL "proxy settings" before, but it never actually mattered before.

[edit: I have finally found a copy on the website. I would still like to ask whether SL is ever going to support standard web proxies. It's really not hard to do... it just takes a few extra lines of code...]

[edit: looks like I'm not the only one having problems with the proxy support]