Hi Tim, If you are in the following situation, NetLingo won't do the job (it'll do otherwise): - You want or have to support access through proxy server that requires authentication. - You don't have access to the proxy server address and/or don't want to impose your user to enter this information. - You need to support IE automatic setup script.
Your solution goes definitively toward a third-party xtra. The 2 that I know of are : - INM SecureNet Xtra - UltimateNetXtra To me, INM Securenet Xtra has these pros compared to UltimateNetXtra: - Handle all the authentication schemes supported by IE (including the common NTLM which is not supposed to be documented) - It may explain why you got problems to authenticate with UltimateNetXtra. - Support for Mac and Windows. - Syntax extremely close to NetLingo, which means that, if your project is already coded using NetLingo, it'll take you just a couple of minutes to convert to INM SecureNet Xtra. - Offers an automatic mode where it'll work exactly like IE (uses all the options set up in IE option panel) UltimateNet Xtra would be interesting only if you need to do more than HTTP GET and POST as it offers FTP support as well. Though, I have one big concern regarding this xtra : they provide a shockwave version that is, apparently, supporting all the functions including the ones that are accessing local directories (I'm thinking about the FTP functions in particular). This doesn't respect Macromedia recommendation for "Shockwave Safe Xtras". Here is an extract from a technote (http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_14726) on Macromedia site : "Not all Xtras can be made 'safe for Shockwave'. Generally speaking, any Xtra that provides a Shockwave movie involuntary access files or directories on an end user's system poses a security risk and cannot be marked as 'safe'. Developers cannot be expected to make 'safe' versions of such Xtras" Therefore, you can imaging shockwave movies exploiting the presence of this xtra to upload malicious files on your clients computers or copying files from your pc to an ftp server - Scary isn't it? I hope it was helpful to make a choice. Kind regards, -- Laurent Brigaut -- Director of Operations -- Integration New Media, Inc. (INM) -- www.INM.com -- +1 514 871 1333 ext. 236 -- LEADERS IN INTERACTIVE MEDIA > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Tim Welford > Sent: November 23, 2005 10:36 AM > To: Lingo programming discussion list > Subject: RE: <lingo-l> getNetText and proxy > > Thanks for that Valentin, Duck, > > I actually stumbled across the proxyserver function after my > post, But looks like a client requires user\pass > authentication on the proxy server as well, so may need the > xtra Duck suggested, although I also found "UntimateNetXtra" > as well which seems to be a better deal for the price. > > Shame that the proxyserver function only seems to be "half > implemented" > I can't think of any good reasons why they wouldn't build in > a method for sending user pass parameters. > > Cheers guys > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Valentin Schmidt > Sent: 23 November 2005 15:17 > To: Lingo programming discussion list > Subject: Re: <lingo-l> getNetText and proxy > > hi tim, > > look up > proxyServer(serverType, "ipAddress", portNum) in the help. > > you can either get the proxy server's IP from the registry > (pc, require's some (free) xtra; on the mac there is propably > some comand to use with shell xtra), or let the user specify > it manually. > > valentin > > > Tim Welford wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Anyone know how I can use things like getNettext when the computer > > uses a proxy server to access the internet. > > > > Do I need to use a 3rd party xtra like UltimateNetXtra, or > is there a > > way with just normal director lingo (MX 04) > > > > Thanks > > > > Tim > > > > > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest > mode, go to > > http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, > > email [email protected] (Problems, email > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with > > programming Lingo. Thanks!] > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest > mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post > messages to the list, email [email protected] (Problems, > email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). > Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > > > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest > mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post > messages to the list, email [email protected] (Problems, > email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and > helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [email protected] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
