WinHttp Configuration for Windows Vista

re: WinHttp Configuration for Windows Vista

Maximilian Haru Raditya — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 11:51:01 GMT

I wonder why the team remain silent if being asked with such question (about proxy authentication), such as the one asked by @Steve Gombotz above and me myself.

I can't hardly remember if they ever say a thing in my suggestion I've reported in Connect (I even can't see my suggestion anymore; not sure where it goes...)

re: WinHttp Configuration for Windows Vista

Steve Gombotz — Fri, 28 May 2010 16:34:06 GMT

Is there way to set or use authentication over the winhttp proxy settings? I have a scenarion where if I my proxy doesn't require authentication, the winhttp proxy settings work fine, but if the proxy does require authentication, the service doesn't send auth to the proxy. (ie. does work though)

It's almost like winhttp doesn't work in a "interactive mode" with the proxy.

Can you confirm or deny?

re: WinHttp Configuration for Windows Vista

wndpteam — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:40:18 GMT

Bruce

The command to reset your proxy settings is

netsh winhttp reset proxy

Thanks

-Jonathan Silvera

WinHTTP Program Manager

re: WinHttp Configuration for Windows Vista

Bruce Willis — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:24:53 GMT

Hi!

How can I unset the proxy after executing

netsh winhttp>set proxy myproxy ?

I've tried the command unset proxy but I've an error as result.

Please advice.

Thanks in advance!

Bruce.

re: WinHttp Configuration for Windows Vista

Sam McKelvie — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:15:38 GMT

I would love to see a named entity that represents a logical collection of proxy settings (or other http/networking settings, such as autologon policy, SSL client certificate, etc.) like this. Then any client application could configure its HTTP settings by binding to a single logical name rather than hardcoding settings or having to provide its own elaborate configuration UI. It also be nice if one collection of settings could inherit defaults from another collection and refine them, rather than becoming a full copy of settings. This would help keep shared settings in one place and would improve the backwards compat story when new settings are added.

Rather than hiding everything in the registry, it would also be nice if at the time I bind to WinHTTP or create a session, I could point at a config file or just provide a blob of XML to describe an entity. But that may be too abstract for WinHTTP.

re: WinHttp Configuration for Windows Vista

Maximilian Haru Raditya — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 07:49:33 GMT

@NMI

> Well, it's a matter of win-history :) You can separate your proxy settings for the "user browser" and for the "core services".

The problem is there's no consistency among the two. For example, for system proxy (set through proxycfg in WinXP), there's no way you can set your authentication data (user name and password), while you can do this in IE.

The idea I'm bringing is to create a standardized system proxy manager where you can put all standardized proxy information (the address, port, user name, password, etc.). Then, a user can create many proxy configurations so that (for example):

- "core service" can choose "proxy configuration a"

- "user browser" can choose "proxy configuration b"

What do you think? Still each apps can still choose different proxies but IMHO it's a more scalable solution. Yet, it's more well-defined than current approach taken in Windows (even Vista; I haven't seen WinServer 2008 yet).

Further, I've reported it here:

https://connect.microsoft.com/WNDP/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=153320

re: WinHttp Configuration for Windows Vista

NMi — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 16:48:31 GMT

Thanks for the clues about netsh/winhttp !

> Why would I set the same information in more than one place?

Well, it's a matter of win-history :) You can separate your proxy settings for the "user browser" and for the "core services".

re: WinHttp Configuration for Windows Vista

Maximilian Haru Raditya — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 01:45:15 GMT

Regards to setting up the proxy server address, so how to set up the http proxy authentication data: both the user name and the password?

HTTP proxy authencation (HTTP 407) has always been problem so far in Windows platform.

Is there any effort to unify this network setting to become ONLY in one place?

Now, I see this in WinHttp Configuration. I've seen this also in IE. Why would I set the same information in more than one place?

Any thoughts?

Thanks!