Proxy isuues, any solution yet?

[rjr162]

I have a lot of down time at the college I attend, and would like to play to kill time.

The issue is, they use the proxy "websense" to filter and block traffic. I'm running Ubuntu and even if I set the proxy in GNOME's Network Proxy and apply system wide, Regnum won't get past the opening screen. I've tried editing the two config files (game.cfg in the main folder, and game.cfg in the "live" sub folder) setting the PROXY options:

[network]

net_http_proxy_port = 8080
net_http_proxy_server = 172.16.5.25

It still doesn't work. I've bypassed the SSH blocks as well as the IRC block using cgi gateways via HTTP to access my home server, but would love to find a simple solution for regnum. A SSH tunnel isn't an option as it's blocked unless ran within a web browser via the cgi app. I may be able to get around that by setting the SSH port to 443 so the websense proxy doesn't throw a fit the "SSL connection" is going to port 22 instead of 443.... but I'm not putting any money on that working.

I read about tsocks, but has anyone had any luck with that?