Open a proxy-server

[Amadeo Vergss]

I'm using a VI to download a HTML-Page from the Internet and processing it
in LV( extracting Information).

It works, but not behind a proxy-server.

Any Idea how to "open" first the proxy-Server with LabVIEW?

[SergKr]

First I'd suggest to ask proxy administrator about proxy parameters, like port, it's type and security settings. Some info you probably can get from your browser if it's configured to work through proxy. (there should be an option like "automatically configure for proxy...").
Hopefully in the simplest case you need to send the same HTTP request to proxy to configured port number(80?). In my case proxy is made transparent for me and there is no such a problem.
Administrator should know how to solve this.

[John Lum]

I tend to agree with Sergey that you might not want to deal with this issue within LabVIEW itself.

Search the NI KnowledgeBase for "proxy" and you'll find a document that discusses generic TCP/IP operations through a proxy and gives a link to some products that allow Windows (for example) to handle proxy connections automatically for you.

Regards,
John Lum
National Instruments