https://vpnw.com/tags/sandboxing/ Recent content in Sandboxing on VPN Works Hugo en-us Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://vpnw.com/sealed-sandbox-case-study-a-script-that-ignores-proxy-settings-tries-three-ways-out-and-finds-none/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://vpnw.com/sealed-sandbox-case-study-a-script-that-ignores-proxy-settings-tries-three-ways-out-and-finds-none/ <p>A proxy setting is only a request. Most programs honor <code>HTTPS_PROXY</code>, and a policy enforced at the proxy works for them. A program that has been told to leak something has every reason not to honor it. It can switch the proxy off, connect to an address directly or find a local service that will connect for it. A policy that only lives in the proxy never hears about any of that.</p>