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#1 2013-03-13 05:36:09
- gomedia
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Outgoing connections via proxy server
I’m on the verge of making a client’s website live & their hosting company has just dropped a big spanner in the works – they don’t allow outgoing connections from their customer’s websites.
This affects:
- updating the language files
help popups- connections to Flickr
- and at least one other plugin that I can think of
Connections have to go via a proxy. This is the information they’re sent me:
In order to protect our web servers, we do not allow direct connections between customers websites and third party servers. In order to connect a website to an external server, please use the below proxy hostname in your websites code.
Host: proxy.private.netregistry.net
Port: 3128
Before I tell my client to change hosting companies, I’ll ask the question – is there any current facility in Textpattern to handle outgoing connections via proxy? I’ve had a hunt around but can’t find any mention of such a thing.
Last edited by gomedia (2013-03-13 20:37:42)
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Re: Outgoing connections via proxy server
Hi Adi,
Even if there is a txp native way wouldn’t proxy connections slow the parsing of the pages anyway?
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#3 2013-03-13 10:56:38
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Re: Outgoing connections via proxy server
colak wrote:
Even if there is a txp native way wouldn’t proxy connections slow the parsing of the pages anyway?
Yes, it would slow things down but these are outgoing connections which are affected – for example when the help links are clicked in Admin, a call is made to rpc.textpattern.com(?)
Incoming connections to the website (and Admin) are not affected.
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Re: Outgoing connections via proxy server
Help links are connections from the client to rpc.textpattern.com not from the webserver.
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#5 2013-03-13 20:36:50
- gomedia
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Re: Outgoing connections via proxy server
MattD wrote:
Help links are connections from the client to rpc.textpattern.com not from the webserver.
Of course they are! Isn’t it funny how things conspire against you sometimes – there must’ve been another, unrelated, network problem at the time coz they’re working now.
Still no language update capability or access to Flickr though.
Last edited by gomedia (2013-03-13 20:40:19)
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