Proxy server and TIdHTTP

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3 total messages Started by Franco Sat, 05 Mar 2005 17:29

#1297

Author: Franco
Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 17:29

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Hi again,

Maybe you can help me with this one.

I have an app which checks for updates through HTTP. All it does is do a GET
against an ASP page on my site that will determine if a newer version
exists.

I use TIdHTTP to do this like so:

const AnsiString verCheckPage =
"http://www.MYDOMAIN.com/download/updverchk.asp";
const AnsiString URLParams = GetURLParams();
const AnsiString fullURL = verCheckPage + "?" + URLParams;

AnsiString response = IdHTTP1->Get(fullURL);

Works great, but I just had a customer say:

"We have to disable this option because it doesn't work behind our firewall.
Can you add an option in the next release to allow users to enter proxy
details then we could use this feature?"

I am not sure how to do this.  Should I expose the TIdHTTP properties:
ProxyAuthenticate, ProxyPassword, ProxyPort, ProxyServer, and ProxyUsername?
If so, how will I test this?  I am not sure how to set up a proxy server to
validate that it works as expected.

Can you give any directions or point me to a web-resource that will help?

Thank you.
Frank

Re: Proxy server and TIdHTTP

#1299

Author: Remy Lebeau (TeamB)
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 21:04

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"Franco" <nope@nope.com> wrote in message
news:4229ec17$1@newsgroups.borland.com...

> I am not sure how to do this.

TIdHTTP has a ProxyParams property that you can assign the necessary values
to.

> Should I expose the TIdHTTP properties: ProxyAuthenticate,
> ProxyPassword, ProxyPort, ProxyServer, and ProxyUsername?

Yes.

> If so, how will I test this?

Do you have access to a proxy server?  If not, there are plenty of
third-party proxy servers you can download for testing.  Or just give it to
your customer and see if it actually works or not.


Gambit

Re: Proxy server and TIdHTTP

#1300

Author: Franco
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 15:06

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Thanks Remy.

"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <no.spam@no.spam.com> wrote
[...]
> > If so, how will I test this?
>
> Do you have access to a proxy server?  If not, there are plenty of
> third-party proxy servers you can download for testing.  Or just give it
to
> your customer and see if it actually works or not.

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