What is the syntax for the "Do not use proxy for:" field of the "Proxies" tab in the "Advanced settings" of a connection setup?

I have the settings working properly for browsing to external web servers through a proxy but I also need to directly access web servers on my local network.

Lets say I have a local server that I access as
http://myserver.mylocal.net/

If I set the "Do not use proxy for:" field to
mylocal.net
my N800 with OS2008 still tries to use the proxy to access the local server above (as indicated by the proxy server's logs).

Also, I sometimes need to access local web servers using their IP address, because it's not in the DNS server's database, (these are temporary servers, so we don't name them via DNS). E.g.:
http://172.16.1.5/

What's the "Do not use proxy for:" syntax for a numbered IP network? I've tried
172.16
172.16.0.0
172.16/16
172.16.0.0/16
172.16.0.0/255.255.0.0
even 172.16.1.5 for a single server
None of the above work.

Last question; What separator should be used for multiple network entries in this field?

*.mylocal.net

and use , as the delimiter.

i run squid and i set an ACL called localnet. then i set an always_direct rule to route requests defined in localnet without going through the proxy. i figured a lot of this out when i was chaining squid to privoxy. privoxy does not support FTP so they show you how to set the ACL and always_direct rule.

http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/c...tml#FORWARDING

This doesn't seem to work. I traced the HTTP traffic using WireShark and the N800 still tries to go through the proxy.

I doesn't look like anyone here has an answer to my questions. So, my next question, as a newbie, is what could I do next to help solve my problems?

Should I post the same questions to another area in these forums? If so, which one?

Are there any other forums or mailing lists for Nokia tablets where I might find answers?

I've done general Google searches and looked around maemo.org without success.

I'd like to determine if I'm not doing things correctly or if it's an actual bug.

Thanks,
Scott