[Grub-dev] how do i enter the proxy information in the c# client for windows?

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Bartek Jasicki wrote:
> C# client use proxy only for upload compressed .arc files on server,
> not for crawl or download workunit (to avoid problems with proxy

okay good to know that. information belongs into any sort of documentation.

> cache). Even if you have set it. Did you have problem with connect to
> upload server by proxy too?

havent tried the upload part yet, i was wondering why it wasnt crawling 
through the proxy at first, thats why i quit the crawler again and tried 
to look for the reason.

about the proxy and cache: arent there some sort of http header tags to 
avoid caching in a proxy (only pass through) or some things like that. 
timestamps or such mechanisms?

> On Windows if i good think, client use Internet Explorer settings (im
> not sure, but probably Mozilla Firefox use this same setting?), on Unix

internetexploder stores stuff as most windows/native apps in the 
registry. firefox can import during install/setup from the windows 
registry (ie settings), but stores its own configuration data in files 
such as prefs.js and such. it uses these files during runtime. i guess 
its a pretty complicated problem what settings to use on what systems 
and so on never mind.

> systems it read from http_proxy environment variable. 
> To set proxy in client, in HTTP proxy server you must write url to
> proxy (example: http://proxy.com ) in Port - proxy port.

there are also applications also for windows that also look for and use 
the environment variables such as http_proxy, ftp_proxy, https_proxy and 
so on. the gnu win32 (wget, curl and many others) are such examples.

then there is that problem in various platforms for applications on how 
to behave if multiple sources of configuration with contradicting 
information is present.

whatever. i will switch to direct access then. i am still wondering why 
it would make sense to upload the arc result file through a proxy but to 
fetch/crawl directly.

whenever you can crawl directly where is the advantage or the reason to 
use the proxy for pushing the arc resultfile?

cheers.