Hi Adrian, All right. I give up. Evil Comrade Oleg will leave HttpState alone ;-) Besides, Roland has made a good point. It may be a bit cumbersome to set default proxy and host credentials if all credentials are kept in the same pool.
Oleg -----Original Message----- From: Adrian Sutton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 12:40 To: Commons HttpClient Project Subject: Re: Why on earth do we differenciate between proxy and hostcredentials? On 30/1/04 1:32 AM, "Roland Weber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Oleg, > > from a technical standpoint, host and port would be sufficient > to differentiate between a proxy and HTTP server on the same > machine. Actually it's not. It's quite possible to have a proxy and a webserver running on the same port on the same machine (using the same interface with the same IP address for what it's worth). We actually have this setup at work on a Windows 2000 box. I believe it works because the proxy is essentially just a module in IIS so it's really just the one program that behaves differently depending on it's input. I believe the same can be achieved with Apache using the right module. It would be technically possible to require (or for users to desire) the use of different credentials with such a proxy/web server combination. I would definitely concede that it's a very unusual case so I'm certainly not against combining the credentials. Regards, Adrian Sutton. ---------------------------------------------- Intencha "tomorrow's technology today" Ph: 38478913 0422236329 Suite 8/29 Oatland Crescent Holland Park West 4121 Australia QLD www.intencha.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
