proxy-servers

Hardware Based Proxy Servers Vs Software Based Proxy Servers

I am doing some sourcing and have just realized that I am having trouble googling out any meaningful results on Hardware based HTTP Proxy Servers. It got me thinking whether there are any good Hardware based Proxy Servers for Office and/or Home use. My Questions is which are the known good Hardware Based HTTP Proxy Servers in production...

Proxy Authentication in .NET - for external API

I'm developing a twitter messaging utility using Twitter API (twitterizer). But since I'm within a corporate proxy, I'm getting the error '407 Proxy Authentication Required'. Is there any way to authenticate the user before calling the API or use the default proxy settings? P.S Internally the API is using HttpWebRequest. ...

Fiddler 2 Wipes My Internet Explorer Proxy Settings

I just started using Fiddler 2 to create request objects for REST,JSON, and SOAP based services that I have been creating. It has worked great so far. The problem came when I attempted to use some of my company resources through Internet Explorer. I was getting some sort of a DNS error, which I realized was happening because my proxy s...

Building HTTPS Support in a C# Proxy Server

I am building a proxy server in C# and I am trying to figure out how to support HTTPS requests, and read through them. Can you suggest any articles, tutorials, or open source projects where I can learn more on how to implement this feature? ...

IE not detecting proxy server hosted on a VM

Hi guys, I was writing a proxy server in C#.NET. My Proxy server has been hosted on a VM (say vm1). Now when I access internet through IE in vm1 the request goes through the proxy server as expected. But if I use another VM say vm2 to access internet through IE the 'Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage' is displayed. I checked t...

How can I write a route/view/controller for a web framework which acts as a dumb proxy?

That is to say, let's say I'm writing something that's hosted on foo.com. I'd like it to be possible for a user who goes to foo.com/bar.com to be served up bar.com from foo.com and to be able to interact with bar.com (e.g. navigate to foo.com/bar.com/baz via point-and-click). I understand that this is what a proxy is supposed to do. I...