> Asking these (very) non-technical folks to configure every > time they movie creates obvious problems. Anyone have any > insight on how to detect proxy settings under any circumstances?
Trevor, Have you checked MSDN or shellcity.org? They might have what you need... bingo, somewhat... <http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/randz/prot ocol/automatic_web_proxy_detection.asp> <http://www.wrec.org/Drafts/draft-cooper-webi-wpad-00.txt> although - there's no info per say... Grrr <http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/randz/prot ocol/royalty_free_protocol_license_agreement.asp> Has a list of many different protocols... it's a start. For php, i found this... http://www.phpbuddy.com/article.php?id=22 Maybe google has more but i didn't read the 419000 links it found ;) Note that most "corporate" software distributes the settings required to run in their network (SMS, Novell NetInstall, Octopus, etc...). Nothing you can do about it other than ask the administrator to send you also that info... Any of these systems can deliver a file to your users' folders. IMOHO, you should contact their network administrator for a settings file delivery or their proxy setting delivery so you can adapt your software to their network. Im not sure all proxy settings can be detected... Also, given it's a multi-subnet lan, there's little way to know which lan the proxy is in... So, haveing the same conditions at work, we're forced to enter it manually. Most users however use preconfigured thin-clients where the problem would be the same for your application, and furthermore, your app may not have access to the registry entries due to security restrictions. cheers Xavier http://monsieurx.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Trevor DeVore > Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 21:54 > To: Revolution List > Subject: Our friend the proxy server > > I'm interested in hearing what people are doing (if anything) > for proxy detection on Windows. Here is the situation I am > up against. > > I have an app which grabs data from the web on occasion. > Detecting and setting proxy settings on Windows is fine if > they have manually configured IE since the settings show up > in the registry. > > The big problem occurs when the computers are behind a proxy > server and the computers are getting their proxy server info > automatically from the server (from something like a .pac > file). Windows doesn't seem to store this info in the registry. > > I have a way for users to manually configure their proxy > settings but in one environment users will be moving to > different offices with their laptops and proxy settings will > change based on their IP subnet. > Asking these (very) non-technical folks to configure every > time they movie creates obvious problems. Anyone have any > insight on how to detect proxy settings under any circumstances? > > Thanks, > > > -- > Trevor DeVore > Blue Mango Multimedia > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
