On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
I've not done extensive testing, but did I read right that squid does not support Java proxying?
There is no such thing as "Java proxying".
What there is is a mixture of different client applications and JRE versions. For proxying to work with an Java application the following criterieas must be fulfilled
a) The Java application must only use the standard HTTP primitives for networking, not attemting to make direct TCP/UDP connections to the network.
b) The JRE version used for running the Java application must be proxy aware, much in the same manner as your browser must be proxy aware..
If any of the above two criterias is not fulfulled then the Java application won't work with proxies, simply because it does not know how to.
If that's the case, then transparent proxying (interception) would have a big problem wouldn't it??
On the opposite. Transparent interception works fine with both of the above issues simply because it does not care.
Regards Henrik
