Talking to Proxy Servers from Macromedia Director

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Macromedia Director” — contains a comparison chart of SecureNet Xtra vs. NetLingo. SecureNet Xtra … available as a complete tutorial from INM’s web site. …

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A White Paper from Integration New Media
Talking to Proxy Servers from Macromedia?Director?
Integration New Media, Inc.
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By Gabrielle Dara KrimTalking to Proxy Servers from Macromedia Director
. Integration New Media Inc 2003. All rights reserved.
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With security threats becoming a universal fear, in the IT sector, as well as nationally, many corporations are now using proxy servers to monitor and restrict Internet traffic to and from their internal networks.
Why proxy servers concern you
A proxy server can prevent unauthorized individuals from accessing external Internet resources by requiring a user name and password, which must be authenticated before processing the request.
This restriction is inconvenient for many e-learning and e-marketing applications, which rely on the Internet to deliver timely, up-to-date content. These days even CD-ROM and Intranet applications, running on a client’s local machine, need to access the Internet for live content updates, or to communicate with remote servers that collect data from individual users. As a developer, you want to take advantage of the Internet’s capabilities, but you do not want to exclude the potential consumers, clients, and e-learners, who are now sitting behind proxy servers.
The proxy challenge
NetLingo?, Director’s?Xtra for network communications, allows for basic proxy server communication, but does…