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List:       twsocket
Subject:    Re: [twsocket] HTTP Client component ideas
From:       "Francois Piette" <francois.piette () overbyte ! be>
Date:       2003-11-27 12:36:59
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This is not the job of an HTTP component.
You can either build a new component for querying proxy settings, or derive your own component and
add this feature. That's what OOP is all about.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fastream Technologies" <fastream@fastream.com>
To: "ICS support mailing" <twsocket@elists.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2003 11:34 AM
Subject: [twsocket] HTTP Client component ideas


> Hello,
>
> While working with clients who use THttpClient descendents, they usually
> complain about the proxy settings being not transferrable/auto-recognized by
> ICS. For example: the user uses IE and has all the proxy information needed
> for the browser to work and the firewall on the network does not permit any
> non-proxy connections. So HTTP proxy data must be provided to the ICS
> component. That said, I think we need a program to recognize IE's settings
> automatically because all of the users have their IE set up properly (in
> order for Windows to work fine with TCP/IP) and they do not want to do it
> the second time for ICS program OR they set "auto-detect" on the IE and they
> have no way of detecting their HTTP proxy information. I have a friend who
> is working in the military and their network admin does not tell him the
> proxy settings. Strange because auto detect works but they simply do not
> want non-IE clients to be used to access the outside world. So this is big
> issue for me and my customers...
>
> Just pondering...
>
> :)
>
> SZ
>
>
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