Pulling my hair out

[HateitOrLoveit]

Sorry for any confusion..Im using the AOL VR 9.0 on ALL websites it picks up the aol ip..But on sites with SSL it is picking up MY ip(i use at&t sbc dsl).

aol vr 9.0 connects your pc to aol's proxy servers.My theory is that somehow aol is letting my real ip be seen only on https sites

[Graycode]

Thanks for clarifying the AOL IP thing.

That makes sense: AOL is bypassing their proxy for your SSL requests, and so your PC is making direct connections to the servers. Unless there's an AOL 9 browser option to send SSL through their proxy then there may be no answer for you.

I'm guessing that AOL bypasses their proxy because the SSL pass-through method used by proxies can be abused maliciously.

You're probably stuck with AOL. Even if you weren't then you'd have to decide what remote proxy to send your SSL requests through in order to hide your IP, and that could be very dangerous if you sent them through places that shouldn't be trusted.

A site being able to see your IP isn't really bad. Most people on this forum run a proxy on their PC, and that proxy connects to servers - which means the servers that we access do see our IP addresses. There's a huge difference between running a local proxy on our PC that's 100% under our control vs. using some remote proxy that we couldn't trust.