HTTP proxies

[Devin Asay]

Thanks, Roger and Trevor. It sounds like it can be a minefield. This gives me a starting point anyway.

Devin

On Aug 20, 2013, at 12:26 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Devin Asay <devin_asay at byu.edu> wrote:
> 
>> I am a neophyte when it comes to proxy servers. My application phones home
>> on occasion via HTTP requests (mostly GET but some PUT) to get content
>> update updates and such. One user has reported that this fails because the
>> application isn't set up to use his university's proxy server.
>> 
>> I found the HTTPProxy property in the dictionary. Is it sufficient to give
>> users a way in my application to enter their HTTP proxy server address?
>> This is also a point of confusion to me. I thought that the HTTP proxy was
>> an OS setting that users set up when setting their network settings. Can
>> anyone point me in the right direction?
>> 
> 
> Ah, proxy servers. When it comes to proxy servers, what will work is highly
> dependent on how the proxy server is set up.

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