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Franco · Guest

Hi again,

Maybe you can help me with this one.

I have an app which checks for updates through HTTP. All it does is do a GET
against an ASP page on my site that will determine if a newer version
exists.

I use TIdHTTP to do this like so:

const AnsiString verCheckPage =
"http://www.MYDOMAIN.com/download/updverchk.asp";
const AnsiString URLParams = GetURLParams();
const AnsiString fullURL = verCheckPage + "?" + URLParams;

AnsiString response = IdHTTP1->Get(fullURL);

Works great, but I just had a customer say:

"We have to disable this option because it doesn't work behind our firewall.
Can you add an option in the next release to allow users to enter proxy
details then we could use this feature?"

I am not sure how to do this. Should I expose the TIdHTTP properties:
ProxyAuthenticate, ProxyPassword, ProxyPort, ProxyServer, and ProxyUsername?
If so, how will I test this? I am not sure how to set up a proxy server to
validate that it works as expected.

Can you give any directions or point me to a web-resource that will help?

Thank you.
Frank

Remy Lebeau (TeamB) · Guest

"Franco" <nope (AT) nope (DOT) com> wrote

Franco · Guest

Thanks Remy.

"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <no.spam (AT) no (DOT) spam.com> wrote
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