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"Robert G. Hoover" <not.a.real.address@anywhere.sorry> wrote in message
news:42897956$1@newsgroups.borland.com...

> Is there a tutorial or an information page on how Proxies
> work/interfere with socket communication?

A proxy is nothing more than a normal server socket that establishes its own
client socket to the target server and then passes any received data back
and forth between the two connections.

> I'm developing my app to talk over a socket and I've heard
> that having a proxy server in between can really mix things up...

That depends on what you are trying to implement in your sockets in the
first place.  For most situations, if implemented properly proxies are
completely transparent, the client has no idea that it connected to a proxy
instead of the actual target server that it is interested in.  How the proxy
knows which server to connect to depends on the protocol that you are
implementing.  HTTP and FTP, for example, have built-in mechanisms for
handling proxies.  Other protocols may not.


Gambit