Testing proxy servers in 6.6.2/6.7

[Trevor DeVore]

On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 9:07 PM, Nakia Brewer <Nakia.Brewer at westrac.com.au>wrote:

>
> Okay so just tested in 6.6.2 RC3 and still no luck.
> Stack works fine if I take it off this network (away from a Proxy) or if I
> use your work around Trevor...
>

Nakia,

Hmm, the other issue could be authentication. LiveCode isn't going to have
authentication callbacks installed by default libURL may just be failing
when the proxy server asks for authentication. If the authentication is
BASIC or DIGEST then a person can write their own callbacks prompting the
user for a username/password. If the authentication type is NTLM then it is
a little more complex.

I just did a quick test with WonderProxy and see this in the libURL log:

--------------------------------------
_proxyForURL_proxyForURL use _proxyFromHTTPProxy() with HTTPProxyProxy for
URL: http://baltimore.wonderproxy.com:80
socket selected: 199.15.252.141:80|6924
GET http://www.google.com:80/ HTTP/1.1
Host: www.google.com
User-Agent: LiveCode (MacOS)

HTTP/1.1 407 Proxy Authentication Required
Server: squid/3.4.4
Mime-Version: 1.0
Date: Thu, 08 May 2014 13:01:36 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 3318
X-Squid-Error: ERR_CACHE_ACCESS_DENIED 0
Proxy-Authenticate: Basic realm="WonderProxy"
X-Cache: MISS from baltimore.wonderproxy.com
Via: 1.1 baltimore.wonderproxy.com (squid/3.4.4)
Connection: keep-alive
--------------------------------------

So the authentication part fails.

Can you turn on logging for lib URL and see if you can figure anything out
from the diagnostics? Just create a stack with a field and tell libURL to
log to it:

libURLSetLogField the long id of field 1 of stack "Untitled 1"

Do you see any authentication headers?

-- 
Trevor DeVore
Blue Mango Learning Systems
www.screensteps.com    -    www.clarify-it.com