Name: gm110360 Date: 04/23/2003


A DESCRIPTION OF THE REQUEST :
There are various websites using applets, and showing tickers, chat, the data comes from server. Older version of Internet Explorer used to HTTP Tunneling while user is behind proxy so there was no connection problem. After Internet Explorer 6.0 , your Java Plugin came into picture. Which does not do any automatic connection through proxy, which have to be configured manually by users.

Tremendous amout of effort is wasted in explaining user about how to set up proxy in Java plugin. Millions of website in world is having and now many many of them have got upgraded to IE 6.0 which is definatey a great issue. People have started moving out from java's applet solution since it is not working. No one bothers how to setup proxy, eventually they decide to leave java and go for html based solution which is heavy. And many times even after setting proxy properly client socket not able to connect to host socket.

With Windows's Internet API you can easily detect proxy connection and setup automatically since your is activex control under internet explorer and your activex has complete access to it so its easy to do settings. Lots and lots of efforts will be saved if the HTTP tunneling starts working automatically.

http://www.codeguru.com/internet/HttpProxyClient.html , this is my link to article where I have explained HTTP Tunneling properly, you can get help from here and get it done. It will not take even an hour to implement for you and will save so much of efforts. We dont mind puting efforts for user but eventually user suffers and says "with older version of IE everything works fine and with newer version of IE you are just making reason that it doesnt work behind proxy etc just to get more money from us" . Now all clients does not understand technical problems.

I am searching for java plugin source code, if I will get I will try to incorporate solution but I know it is very big and my try wouldnt be that much helpful to anyone.

- Akash Kava
NeuroSpeech

JUSTIFICATION :
Example: We have made a stock trading related website showing tickers of stock prices in applet. This applet doesnt work when user is behind proxy. These users are not technical, they dont understand technical problem and its not possible to explain everyone how to change proxy settings and how to make it running. Users complain that why it works with older versions of IE and why not with new one.. its just your strategy to earn more money on name of support.
(Review ID: 184613)
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