i've just faced an error with an application i'm using. i've set it to use a proxy and tried connecting to receive the following error : why would it be forbidden, even though visiting the same link through a browser without an http tunnel works ok.. java.io.IOException: Error initializing HTTP tunnel connection: HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden Server: squid/2.6.STABLE21 Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:47:07 GMT Content-Type: text/html Content-Length: 1066 Expires: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:47:07 GMT X-Squid-Error: ERR_ACCESS_DENIED 0 X-Cache: MISS from Proxy X-Cache-Lookup: NONE from Proxy:3128 Via: 1.0 Proxy:3128 (squid/2.6.STABLE21) Proxy-Connection: close _________________________________________________________________ Show them the way! Add maps and directions to your party invites. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/products/events.aspx