Problems with Proxy Servers

Designing or solving website problems caused by proxy servers

[royhink]

I am trying to get up to speed on proxy servers.

We run several subscription based reference sites aimed at libraries. We use IP authentication to verify that the library is a member.

Many run a proxy server (Easy Proxy is mentioned often). Our salespeople are saying that many of our features cannot be accessed through these proxy servers. Specifically, our flash menu, using cookies, several pages in iFrames and several features requiring Java.

I've got questions about whether it's a 'settings' issue in easyproxy, or if I need to redesign these pages to be accessible to visitors going through a proxy.

I also need to know how to test our site. There are public proxy servers available, but I'm unclear on if they are configured the same as our clients proxy.

Any help very appreciated.

[incrediBILL]

Adobe has a Flash test site for proxy port issues:
[kb.adobe.com...]

Not sure about your Java situation but you might have to change some code in your applet to detect user's proxy configuration in Java 5+ using something like java.net.Proxy and java.net.ProxySelector class so you can tunnel through the proxy.