No problem, glad it helped. While figuring this out I was going a bit crazy as well, so I thought I’d write some of the solutions down.

Next thing I’m going to look at is a third party localhost proxy for windows Mobile to see if I can force everything through that instead – it might fix a few other issues I’ve been seeing (such as not being able to activesync to my exchange server and browse the web through an external proxy on the same network under the same networking config).

-Glen

thanks a lot for your two articles on Windows Mobile networking. I feel much better now. I have spent days trying to get a 3G/Wifi/OpenVPN setup done on my SonyEricsson and was close to going crazy.

Thanks to the details in your article, I know now that Microsoft are crazy, not me: “… decides how to handle a http network request based on whether there are any decimals in the dns name.” Unbelievable!

This is all very sad. There is great mobile hardware now, like the X1, but Windows Mobile prevent us from using it properly.

Stefan