Sid, > I live behind such a fascist firewall, but as I don't use port 443 on my > home lan, I have redirected that host to elsewhere. It's probably > better anyway, as some sites trap port 80 traffic and make it go via a > web proxy (though the 443 solution is not immune either). I believe Proxytunnel (http://proxytunnel.sourceforge.net) in some cases can bypass such facist setups ;) .../Bosse