Our friend the proxy server

[Pierre Sahores]

Trevor,

Unfortunally, the windows based proxy servers don't works anytime (some 
times yes, sometimes no) as expected in the situation you are 
describing, even if your server-side forms are well formed, aka 
including the needed metatags :

<meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache">
<meta http-equiv="expires" content="0">
<meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="no-cache">

This problem will never occur if the proxy is set in using an unix OS, 
mac os x and linux included.

Best,


> I'm interested in hearing what people are doing (if anything) for 
> proxy detection on Windows.  Here is the situation I am up against.
>
> I have an app which grabs data from the web on occasion.  Detecting 
> and setting proxy settings on Windows is fine if they have manually 
> configured IE since the settings show up in the registry.
>
> The big problem occurs when the computers are behind a proxy server 
> and the computers are getting their proxy server info automatically 
> from the server (from something like a .pac file).  Windows doesn't 
> seem to store this info in the registry.
>
> I have a way for users to manually configure their proxy settings but 
> in one environment users will be moving to different offices with 
> their laptops and proxy settings will change based on their IP subnet. 
>  Asking these (very) non-technical folks to configure every time they 
> movie creates obvious problems.  Anyone have any insight on how to 
> detect proxy settings under any circumstances?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> -- 
> Trevor DeVore
> Blue Mango Multimedia
> trevor at mangomultimedia.com
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