Proxy Settings in Windows - RB10 D6.2

rbuser

Hi

Due to a comms issue with a clients network they are having to use a
different network route to run our application which works fine. When they
come to use the report side of things it does not work as it seems that
reportbuilder does not use proxy settings of the client.

Is there anyway you know of to allow this to happen as it is easier to
update the proxy gateway than have to reconfigure many 10's of PC's. Is the
solution in report builder or is there a way for us to do this in Delphi for
report builder?

Any help/tips gratefully received

regards
Andrew

nardmoseley

- is this an RB Server application? In other words an application in which
you are using RB Server Edition to build a multier reporting solution?

- Or is this a standard Delphi app that includes the RB reporting engine?
Does it include the RB Designer?

- Are there any issues with connecting to the database or being able to
access network printers?

- What do you mean by easier to reconfig the gateway than reconfig the pc's?
What type of reconfig for the pc's is required? (I do not have experience
with proxies, I do not know how they work.)

Please provide more details...

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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors
www.digital-metaphors.com

rbuser

Nard

The application is a Delphi App and I am using TrsClientReport to
communicate with an RBServer on a remote machine. This works great with
their full network running. When the network has to go into this fallback
mode (the main network is down so use another route) the TrsClientReport
does not do anything with the proxy server. The proxy server will take all
requests issued by a client and can be configured to route requests through
specific network paths. So because the normal path to our database server
(RemObjects driven) is unavailable the proxy server redirects the request
down the backup route to reach the server. In that way no IP server address
information is need to be updated on the client PC or indeed route
information.

Report Builder appears to not use proxy settings and therefore the requests
from it are not redirected and therefore never reach the RBServer as the
route the requests take is down.

Proxy settings are used in Internet Explorer so you can control the usage of
the web in an organisation. If you go to Internet Options and look for
Connections and then press settings in the LAN box you will see proxy
settings (if you have any). As a company we do not use proxy settings as we
have a router connected through into our LAN and therefore have direct
access to the internet. Other companies however push all there internet
traffic through to a proxy server (usually a PC running windows/linux with
some app that operates as a proxy server) in this way it gives them the
ability to block sites and monitor usage etc.

regards
Andrew

nardmoseley

You can optionally configure the TrsClientReport.Connection to communicate
over HTTP, however to do this you also need to setup a WebTier application
on the server side. The WebTier runs within the context of IIS (usually as
an ISAPI dll) and in this scenario acts as a proxy for the server (the
server cannot itself communicate over HTTP).

report server <---> webtier <-- (http) --> client report

Check out the help topic for TrsClientReport and then navigate to the topic
for the Connection property (TrsConnection class).


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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors
www.digital-metaphors.com