Http-downloads don't work at all in aMule, because it's not possible to use the proxy ONLY for http.
That request might make sense, though you're probably the only one with that problem. How did you get your system set up so Kad works and HTTP doesn't?
Gateway with caching proxy for http/ftp and so on, mail/news-server, and nat for ed2k/kad/irc/games. Not really difficult.
You can configure the proxy as transparent at least for HTTP (under Linux iptables + squid at example).
And then? Doing the same for https, ftp, ftps. No way. And when I have an URL like
www.example.com:8080 it won't work either.
If a 1.1MB download is an issue
If the 1.1MB download doesn't result in any data and blocks the app, it is a problem. Btw. I used a very small homepartition in times where noone did think about filesharing networks different of usenet and ftp-servers. Unfortunately my harddisk is still working, and as I would have to move the half of my system, I wait till it is needed. Almost every app let's me decide where his data should go, so it isn't really a problem for me. That's the reason why I implemented the "Use systemwide IP-filter" option. Initially this was the reason for the param to change the config dir, too. I just was to lazy to move it and set an alias.
