[HOT] Experience with JOSM being blocked by an IT set up and ways forward

[nicolas chavent]

Thanks Kate for this help: the tram can now work on the right tool and in
two resourceful workplaces both in UNHCR and in WFP which alo provide with
a continued exposition to field workers and partners.

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Kate Chapman <kate at maploser.com> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> So the issue was an automatic proxy configuration. The way we fixed it
> was the following.
>
> 1. Go to http://wpad/wpad.dat on the computer
> 2. Open the resulting wpad.dat file in a text editor
> 3. Read the proxy setting out of the file
> 4. Open JOSM
> 5. Go to Preferences
> 6. Go to Connection settings
> 7. Go to Proxy settings Tab
> 8. Change to "manually configure a HTTP proxy
> 9. Enter proxy settings from wpad.dat file
>
> Hopefully this will be helpful to someone else someday. Not quite sure
> what to do with this information. Perhaps there needs to be a basic
> JOSM troubleshooting guide for field conditions for things like this.
>
> Best,
>
> -Kate
>
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Kate Chapman <kate at maploser.com> wrote:
> > One of our experiences in Indonesia is many of the governments and
> > universities use proxies. The system proxy settings from Windows are
> > not automatically used in JOSM.  We had to manually set the proxy
> > settings in the preferences.
> >
> > -Kate
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Sébastien Pierrel
> > <sebastien.pierrel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> I haven't seen such a message yet. Just a thought: how do web browsers
> and
> >> other programs access to the internet? Look for proxy settings.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Seb.
> >>
> >> On Oct 30, 2012 8:59 AM, "nicolas chavent" <nicolas.chavent at hotosm.org>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi all,
> >>>
> >>> Hope you are all well. Does anyone already experienced an IT
> environment
> >>> where JOSM is blocked. This leaves you with no way to download data/
> >>> imagery/ plugins etc (error message : Failed to upload to or download
> data
> >>> from the osm api due to a problem with transfering data. Details
> >>> (unstranslated) connect times out¨ And has identified ways through.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks
> >>>
> >>>
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Nicolas Chavent
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Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
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