E61 HTTP Proxy

I could have sworn at one point I saw a SOCKS proxy set of settings in either my E61 or on the 6680, but looking all around in the browser and searching online I didn’t find anything. I had pretty much given up on the idea. And then one thing let to another another, and next thing I know I’m reconfiguring Madgat at 2 in the morning instead of sleeping like I should be. And in the process of poking around with various APN settings and trying to figure out how the gateways are passing along requests and how exactly would RADIUS be supported at the gateway and how can I get that info passed to me? I stumble upon the “Advanced Settings” for an APN on the E61.

“What Proxy is this?” I think to myself. Is it a WAP gateway? Maybe it’s another form of APN control point. So I do the obvious thing: login to my public server, fire up netcat, point the proxy to that server and port, and start poking around. Login to IM and nothing shows up on the netcat. So instead I try the browser, and sure enough there comes the proxy request. Fantastic!! Not what I was looking for to begin with, but something I was hoping to find. A few minutes later I have tinyproxy up and running to make sure that everything actually works, both with the KHTML browser and the WAP Services browser. About 20 minutes and one PEAR HTTP_Server package install later and I have the transcoder hooked up to an HTTP processor and I’m transcoding requests to my phone transparently. Now that definitely deserves a w00t!