Hello
I have installed WinGate and am able to direct all traffic to my Wingate Server (192.168.1.18) and then direct that traffic through a VPN interface which goes to the USA (so I can watch USA video content from Canada). I set up the proxy settings in Windows 7 LAN settings on my client PC. All the HTTP traffic goes to WinGate and then to the VPN Interface and this is good. If I want to watch Canadian content then I have to de-select my proxy settings on my Windows 7 PC and select it for USA content.
Now I want to tweak the setup by sending only the USA website traffic to Wingate and not any other site. The reason is that I want to watch both Canadian content and USA content without having to change settings. Here is what I did: I do not have any Proxy settings enabled in Windows 7. I did change the host file for the sites that I want to send to WinGate and instead of getting that address from the DNS it gets it from the host file and the address that I use is the WinGate server address (192.168.1.18). For example
http://www.cbc.ca (Canadian Site) resolves the IP via regular DNS and it goes to the site directly (not through Wingate). For example
http://www.usanetwork.com resolves to 192.168.1.18 and thus goes to WinGate Server. This WinGate Server is set up to accept "Web Server" requests (WWW Proxy Server Properties/Web Server Tab) and by default I set it up to PROXY the requests.
This all works GREAT except for one thing....... Most websites' web pages use other websites for various components.
http://www.usanetwork.com for example does not play the video content if I only point that site to WinGate. I seems that site checks for the geo-location of the client PC using link.theplatform.com and if I also point this site to WinGate (in addition to
http://www.usanetwork.com) I am able to play the content fine. The problem is that
http://www.cbc.ca (which is a Canadian Site and is not sent to WinGate) ALSO uses this geo-location service (link.theplatform.com) and I if this traffic is send to WinGate the content on
http://www.cbc.ca does not play.
Any ideas of how to overcome this issue would be appreciated.