There are many people that are forced to use a proxy, be it students in shared accommodation or school staff. Following the blog of The Minecraft Teacher I've realised that Minecraft could be used for educational purposes, but most schools have a proxy.
I've so far found that moving the minecraft.exe
into the %appdata%/bin
folder and creating a batch file with this in should work:
java -Dhttp.proxyHost=hostURL -Dhttp.proxyPort=hostPort -Xmx800m -jar Minecraft.exe
... although I've so far been unable to get this to work.