Hi Saminda;
1. We agee it is best to support Proxy property from
ConfigurationContext (contxt hierachy) as well as transport Sender.
That way it can be set via client API.
2. supporting proxy via System properties is nice feature to have
Changing proxy parameter format might arouse backword compatibility
issues. May be we should support both URL and old formats.
Thanks
Srinath
On 6/14/07, Saminda Abeyruwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Devs,
When considering the JIRAS 2316 & 2214 regarding client side proxy
configuration, IMHO how we configure the proxy through Axis2.xml is highly
inefficient and ugly .
(Proxy can also be configured using runtime with
HttpTransportProperties.ProxyProperties, IMO it is doing
exactly what we need).
My concern is when we configure proxy through Axis2.xml in client side. At
the moment to configure the proxy we need to do the following
<transportSender name="http"
class="org.apache.axis2.transport.http.CommonsHTTPTransportSender">
<parameter name="PROTOCOL"
locked="false">HTTP/1.1</parameter>
<parameter name="PROXY" proxy_host="proxy_host_name"
proxy_port="proxy_host_port"
locked="true>userName:domain:passWord</parameter>
</transportSender>
The above is very inefficient and it's hard to even follow.
The other problem I see with this approch is that proxy is configured under
transport "http". What if the user only has "https" and need to use proxy.
Thus I propose to get rid of the parameter named "PROXY" completely and
introduce an independent toplevel parameter to Axis2.xml named "Proxy"
following the convention.
Thus,
it would be like,
<parameter name="Proxy">
<Configuration>
<ProxyHost>example.org</ProxyHost>
<ProxyPort>5678</ProxyPort>
<ProxyUser>saminda\example</ProxyUser> //
user\domain
<ProxyPassword>ppp</ProxyPassword>
</Configuration>
</parameter>
At this way the senders may be http or https proxy configuration will apply
to both.
I will update the Docs as proposed.
What would be your consensus on prior ?
Thank you
Saminda
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Saminda Abeyruwan
Software Engineer
WSO2 Inc. - www.wso2.org
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Srinath Perera:
Indiana University, Bloomington
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~hperera/
http://www.bloglines.com/blog/hemapani
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