[Privoxy-users] Apps traffic bypassing Privoxy.

[Lee]

On 9/27/16, Fabian Keil <fk at fabiankeil.de> wrote:
> Atar <atar.yosef at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I've installed Privoxy on my PC (Microsoft Windows 7) and configured the
>> proxy settings inside Internet Explorer settings to pass all the network
>> traffic of all possible protocols through Privoxy.
>>
>> I then configured Privoxy to the most verbose debugging option (I set the
>> "debug" directive to the value 16) and then watched the output of the log
>> file.
>>
>> Suprisingly, the traffic of two apps on my PC wasn't captured by Privoxy,
>> the two apps are TeamViewer and a special app which is used to connect my
>> PC to a local telephone network.
>>
>> My question is why the traffic of those two apps hasn't been captured by
>> Privoxy?
>
> Privoxy does not process traffic unless it is send to Privoxy.
>
> While Privoxy can process intercepted HTTP connections,
> they are not intercepted by Privoxy itself but by the operating
> system Privoxy runs on (or some other software):
> https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/config.html#ACCEPT-INTERCEPTED-REQUESTS
>
> On Windows, applications are free to ignore the IE proxy settings
> and it sounds like some of your applications do this.
>
> It's possible that those applications have their own proxy settings
> or that they simply don't support HTTP proxies.

or you didn't set a proxy for dialup connections.  IE has a proxy
setting for local area network connections and a separate setting for
dial-up and virtual private network settings

Lee