Demonseed, I understand the route in which PS3 connects to PSN via a proxy or not.the program PS3 Proxy server GUI reroutes the connection from PS3 to internet but in that transaction it stops the PS3 from sending that request to the PSN server for a check on firmware. F.Y.I the request from PS3 to PSN looks more like this:
hxxp://feu01.ps3.update.playstation.net/update/ps3/list/eu/ps3-updatelist.txt
take note that it is a .txt file on the other end of the PSN network that is updated with the new firmware Sony releases. within this .txt file is a a line that says:
ImageVersion=00003b05;SystemSoftwareVersion=2.8000
that is what goes back to your PS3 to see if it is on version 2.80 (or what ever version sony is on) if not you are asked to update.however...
PS3 proxyserverGUI allows you to add a "middleman" before the request goes out to that Hxxp: URL. the middle man being your own .txt file with the same information that sony has in there hxxp://feu01.ps3.update.playstation.net/update/ps3/list/eu/ps3-updatelist.txt but with a change in numbers. there is a thread on this already:
http://www.ps3news.com/forums/ps3-gu...oxy-98033.html
this works and has been working for a while...until 3 days ago (when i made this thread).
I will never bow down to sony and update. I have patients...and a custom firmware Wii to hold me down until this blows over...or until someone cracks there bypass block.