Some of our customers have strong network security policies.
First they use firewalls,
second they force usage of proxy for all traffic to and from the internet.
Thus blocking the servoy client to access an external test server by ssh tunnel.
As changing these policies is not an option, we will need the option to force all client communications through the default proxy. (Two-way socket does not work here)
Is there any possibility to achieve this with the current 2.1.1 version (changing java engine settings does not help for this)?
If not, please consider this as a feature request, as other developpers will certainly meet the same trouble with their customers.
I read this page - and kept a copy for info - but the reference to Proxy just suggested “Remove your proxy settings …” - this is not always possible.
We having problems with NHS Hospitals trying to connect - following details problem
I have looked into the problem with the Servoy client at Mid Staffs and it is a problem with the way the client is using the proxy settings. The problem is that the client does not work with our proxy server, what we would normally do in this situation is add the IP Address of the remote host so that the proxy is bypassed.
We use an Automatic Configuration Script which is a .Pac file to configure proxy settings, the entry to bypass your IP looks like this
else if (isInNet(host, “217.37.xxx.xx”, “255.255.255.255”))
return “DIRECT”;
else
return “PROXY 194.101.209.241:80”;
}
From what I can tell the Servoy client picks up the proxy settings from IE bit it is not bypassing the proxy as specified in the file. I think this is a problem with the way Java/Servoy client interprets the Pac file and perhaps your developers may be able to help?
I’m well out of my depth here and would be grateful for a response/solution I can pass on to them
From my understanding it seems to indicate that the latest update to Java - JRE 1.5 - handles these situations OK but the previous JRE 1.4 version could throw problems. Could it be that you have JRE 1.5 but Eddie is on JRE 1.4? If so could you try updating Eddies computer and test the connection again. It would be a good idea to find & delete the existing servoy-client.properties file to avoid confusion.
then pasted what I thought was the appropriate text from the thread you suggested:
after consulting with our network controller it seems that the JRE doesn`t copy the exceptions of the proxy server as entered in the
Internet options\connections\Lan Settings\Proxy Server\Advanced\Exceptions field.
This means that the commands are not recognized as a internal request and are send to the proxy server.
When our legacy or classic proxy server recieves such a request it drops the request (internal requests are not send to the proxy (see exceptions in IE) so it defines this as a virus attack). When we enter the exeptions manually in the JRE everythig seems to work.
We consider this as a bug in JRE. After consulting them they say that there is no Service provided on free tools. Twisted Evil
Next week we are going to try integrating the exceptions in JRE with a startup script.
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The problem is solved with JDK 1.5 (Server) JRE 1.5 (client).
JRE copies all Proxy settings from browser now.
Could you spell out for the proxy-challenged like myself what advice needs to be passed on.