iphone programmatically read proxy settings

Question

I'm looking at adding proxy support to my iphone svn client. When you set up a system wide vpn in the iphone settings you can add a global proxy. Is it possible for external apps to read this information through the api?

Answer 1

Have you investigated using something like ASIHttpRequest, see the section in the how to document describing proxy support.

At the very least the source code should contain some helpful guidance.

Answer 2

Take a look at the CFProxySupport API, in particular CFNetworkCopyProxiesForURL() will let you read the proxies that are needed to get to a particular URL.