Comments on: Fiddler: Trying to work out how it all hooks together http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2009/09/06/fiddler-trying-to-work-out-how-it-all-hooks-together/ Thoughts on Software Development Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:17:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mark Needham http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2009/09/06/fiddler-trying-to-work-out-how-it-all-hooks-together/comment-page-1/#comment-26552 Mark Needham Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:36:44 +0000 http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/?p=1618#comment-26552 @mat - I used yuml - http://yuml.me/ @mat – I used yuml – http://yuml.me/

]]> By: mat roberts http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2009/09/06/fiddler-trying-to-work-out-how-it-all-hooks-together/comment-page-1/#comment-26551 mat roberts Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:29:05 +0000 http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/?p=1618#comment-26551 Hi Mark, What did you use to draw the pictures on this post...I like them a lot. Cheers Mat Hi Mark,
What did you use to draw the pictures on this post…I like them a lot.
Cheers
Mat

]]> By: Rob Hunter http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2009/09/06/fiddler-trying-to-work-out-how-it-all-hooks-together/comment-page-1/#comment-22304 Rob Hunter Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:48:53 +0000 http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/?p=1618#comment-22304 For the record, a lot of Windows applications will use what you call the "system proxy" settings. Safari and Chrome, but not Eclipse. The Cygwin installer has it as an option called "Use IE5 settings". One thing that mightn't be obvious (although it's probably not relevant here) is "automatic proxy configuration". Proxy autoconfig (PAC) isn't just a hostname/port pair, it's actually <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_auto-config" rel="nofollow">a script</a>. That means that any client that wants to use those settings needs a Javascript interpreter somewhere along the way. There's also the Web Proxy Auto-Discovery protocol, which uses DNS to find a PAC script. (Theoretically it uses DHCP first but I don't think most implementations use that.) For the record, a lot of Windows applications will use what you call the “system proxy” settings. Safari and Chrome, but not Eclipse. The Cygwin installer has it as an option called “Use IE5 settings”.

One thing that mightn’t be obvious (although it’s probably not relevant here) is “automatic proxy configuration”. Proxy autoconfig (PAC) isn’t just a hostname/port pair, it’s actually a script. That means that any client that wants to use those settings needs a Javascript interpreter somewhere along the way.

There’s also the Web Proxy Auto-Discovery protocol, which uses DNS to find a PAC script. (Theoretically it uses DHCP first but I don’t think most implementations use that.)

]]> By: Dave Cameron http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2009/09/06/fiddler-trying-to-work-out-how-it-all-hooks-together/comment-page-1/#comment-22286 Dave Cameron Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:43:31 +0000 http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/?p=1618#comment-22286 I can't find the reference just at the moment, but: Whether WinINet proxy settings affect you depends on which low-level API is used to set up the socket that the http request will be made over. All of the high-level .net libraries end up using low-level calls that are affected by WinINet. I think the alternative API is only usable from direct win32 code, or maybe would require rewriting an http handling library in .net. I can’t find the reference just at the moment, but:

Whether WinINet proxy settings affect you depends on which low-level API is used to set up the socket that the http request will be made over. All of the high-level .net libraries end up using low-level calls that are affected by WinINet.

I think the alternative API is only usable from direct win32 code, or maybe would require rewriting an http handling library in .net.

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