Simon Saraga wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am using HttpCli to connect to a server in my application.
> Sometimes I need to use proxy settings, which I can easily detect
> from IE registry settings. My question is that I need to determine
> if one of the proxy settings includes a username and password. How
> can I query a server to determine if a username and password is
> expected? I only want to display the password dialog to the user
> that needs to input that infomation on their specific server. I
> don't want the password dialog to appear when it is not needed.
Status code 407 "Proxy Authentication Required" is the error when
the proxy expect authentication.
I guess you have to ask the user at least once. Once you know
username and password you can store it at a (more or less) secure
place, IE uses protected storage, may be that username and
password is already stored there?
Have a look at this component:
http://www.cobans.net/pslib.php
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>
> Your help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you.
>
>
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