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Does SETI@home work through firewalls (or proxies)?

April 26, 2017firewalls proxies seti@home

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Does SETI@home work through firewalls (or proxies)?

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SETI@home uses the HTTP protocol, and work through any semi-transparent firewall that allows outgoing Web traffic. The latest versions of SETI@home should work through more restrictive firewalls and proxies. If you are having problems connecting from Windows through a SOCKS proxy, you could also look into SocksCap by NEC at http://www.socks.nec.com/sockscap.html and Hummingbird Socks at http://www.hummingbird.com/products/nc/socks/index.html Both let you use software as if it were “directly connected to the Internet”. If you’re STILL having trouble connecting through an HTTP proxy server and you are running SETI@home on an older version of Windows 95, Microsoft has an updated Winsock 2 driver which corrects the problem, and lets the SETI@home client connect. Search for “Windows Socket 2” in the Product Information section of the Microsoft web site. The file is about 986 kbytes, and post-dates Windows 95 Service Pack 1. For more info about how to install Proxomition, click here.