My workplace uses proxy settings to use the wifi, and I can't find them anywhere on the Droid...is there no proxy options right now? hopefully they will update this where you can have proxy settings.
Thank you for the response. I can't seem to find it on the market. I will load it up from the package. It seems (per the docs) only the browser is supported. Which would not work for email, youtube, pandora, and other apps that don't use the browser. I will post my findings after I have tested.
Proxy settings are available to the Hero on phone providers' 3G/Edge connections, but this facility is not accessible in the wireless AP settings. The proxy-setter referred to above would have been a start, but it appears to be non-functional and poorly designed.
The fact that Android has apparently been deliberately crippled to prevent this was both a very careless technical decision and an evil business decision. It means that users with proxied corporate or academic wireless networks have to use their phone company's slow and expensive 3G or Edge connections. It is difficult not to suspect that this was a deliberate choice by the designers to allow the phone providers an additional and unnecessary revenue stream. The fact that the app mentioned above neither works nor is available would seem to support the view that Google wants to restrict usage in this manner, which is a pity, as both Android and the Hero are otherwise quite good.
///Peter
I am also upset about lack of proxy settings but you have some facts wrong. You don't need proxy settings on 3G since you are not on your employer's network when you are on 3G!
In the US I pay a flat monthly fee to Verizon which covers all of my 3G activity. So I don't buy your implied motive on Google's part.
It is plain and simple a f&&kup.
So why does Android provide for proxy settings in 3G/Edge connections when they aren't needed, and not provide for proxy settings in wifi connections where they are needed (sometimes critically)?
I have no idea what you are talking about. My phone (Eris) has no place to set proxies for 3G or for WiFi. Maybe you are running a different version of Android OS. I am on 1.5 and it looks like they are never going to upgrade this phone to 2.0...
Just got an Incredible and had the same problem until just now. Go to your wifi settings screen and press your options menu and you "should" get an option for Advanced. From there, you can set up your proxy under the mysteriously hidden Proxy option.
Settings
----Wireless and network
--------Wi-Fi settings
adb shell "export HTTP_PROXY='user:pass@proxyserver:port'"
* The same for HTTPS_PROXY, FTP_PROXY, FTPS_PROXY...
** ':pass' and ':port' are optional. It may be 'user@proxyserver' only.
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