# Facebooker behind firewall

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/facebooker-behind-firewall/138710>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 27, 2008, 4:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/facebooker-behind-firewall/138710 "2008-05-27T04:05:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![naus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/e9c0ed/32.png) [@naus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/naus)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 4:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/facebooker-behind-firewall/138710/1 "2008-05-27T04:05:36Z")

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Hi, I’m trying to set up facebooker on local computer and as soon as I  
add ensure\_authenticated\_to\_facebook to my controller I get connection  
errors. After inserting some debugging code I figured it tries to  
connect to [http://api.facebook.com/restserver.php](http://api.facebook.com/restserver.php) ignoring http proxy  
settings. There’s no direct internet connection on my computer and using  
proxy is mandatory unfortunatelly. Is there a way to make facebooker  
respect HTTP\_PROXY variable?

I understand that eventually I would have to get to the external hosting  
and the problem would be solved but developing something on local  
computer is way faster. Don’t see the reason why facebooker can’t use  
http proxy server anyway.

Would appreciate any help!  
Leo