[EMBOSS] mEMBOSS: Jemboss and proxy servers

[E. Hack]

I have installed the new Windows mEMBOSS.  To use external databases, I 
have to connect to the web via a proxy server.  When running EMBOSS 
programs from a Windows command prompt, I can do this successfully using 
the EMBOSS_PROXY environment variable.  With Jemboss, however, external 
connections to databases give me a "socket connect failed" error 
message, and I can't reach external help files either.

The default setting in my Java Control Panel is "Use browser settings". 
I have tried changing this to "Use proxy server" and I have also tried 
specifying the proxy server from inside Jemboss under Preferences - 
Jemboss - Browser Proxies.  Neither of these methods seems to make any 
difference.

I'd be grateful for any suggestions as to what the problem might be. I 
hope the question is an appropriate use of this mailing list and 
apologise if it isn't.  I suspect the solution may be helpful to others 
too (even it should be obvious...) - I don't think there's anything 
particularly unusual about the way my computer is set up.

Ethan Hack

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