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Re: BITS transfer via proxy and/or firewall

Subject: Re: BITS transfer via proxy and/or firewall
From: "Narayana Mahankali [MSFT]"
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 17:46:45 -0800
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.backgroundtransfer
There should be no problems with using BITS with proxy or firewalls. BITS 
doesn't listen on any network ports and so you don't have to open any ports 
in the firewall. If you are using proxy you have to make sure that either 
the proxy settings are specified using the api 
IBackgroundCopyJob::SetProxySettings or the IE proxy settings for the owner 
of the job are correctly set. One thing to remember is to make sure that the 
proxies support HTTP/1.1 specification and particularly the Range requests. 
Some proxies (Squid and Apache 1.3) respond differently to range requests 
depending on whether the file is in the proxy cache or not.

-- 
Narayana Mahankali
Microsoft, BITS

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"Statto" <wardpd@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
news:e66J1pxLFHA.3988@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> TD,
> BITS can negotiate proxy servers but it needs to be told about them.  Use 
> the BITSAdmin tool with the /Util /GetIEProxy and SetIEProxy commands. 
> You can set proxy script settings and port numbers for the various user 
> accounts.  You can also configure to bypass the proxy server using 
> NO_PROXY.
> Had no experience of using firewall technology with BITS though.
> Statto
> <TDeveloperDotNET@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
> news:1111442720.330791.117400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Hi,
>>
>> I haven't been able to find too much documentation about whether BITS
>> version 1.5 and above will have any problem downloading files if
>> there's a proxy server and/or a firewall in between. Can someone please
>> shed some lights for me on this topic?
>>
>> Thanks.
>> TD
>>
>
> 



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