URLPlus as it is now does support proxy servers. I think the version on The Shire (I still call it by that; I keep forgetting the new name) is an older version prior to the proxy support I added.
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 2:15 AM, Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell at gmail.com>wrote:
Heh - that looks like exactly what I was doing for the last 8 years. Do you have any vacancies?? :) URLPlus uses curl, so it should be able to do what your existing scripts do. This is the line in the showUrl subroutine:
$ret=qx(curl -m $tout -s -k -S $pstr "$url" 2>&1);I guess that's one place some changes could be made - adding options for user authentication, proxy url and proxy authentication.
Ralph Mitchell
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Everett, Vernon < Vernon.Everett at woodside.com.au> wrote:
Hi Gary
I have seen URLPlus, but never delved into it. Instead, I have been messing about with scripts using curl to try and get web sites checked. It gets a bit tricky here, because we have internal and external web sites we need to check, some need to go through our proxy, some not. And then we also need to check external "service" web sites that we require to be up. And it's all a nice mix of http and https. Does URLPlus handle proxy servers OK?
Not sure what it needs, since I haven't used it yet, but I would encourage you to continue working on it.
We have a major project deadline we are working towards right now, so time is a premium, but in the near future, I will give URLPlus a go, and let you know what I think.
Regards Vernon