Accessing site thru firewall/proxy at work

[ChimpMaster]

Hi Guys

I'm having problems connecting to a particular website at work. Don't usually have problems so this is unusual.

The message I get is:-

"Cannot connect to SOAP server, please verify that connections to http://xxxx.xxxxxxxxxx.com/soap are allowed by your firewall and/or proxy server"

(I've put the x's in)

This message is in a Java window, used for realtime streaming data updates.

Now I have tried to connect to the website mentioned in the error message and I can do that successfully in a browser (IE6).

Does anyone here know how I can correct the issue here and make this work?

Thanks

[Sockpuppet]

Lemme get this stragiht..

You can get to site X but the error tells you to do to site Y which works?

Are the admins doing any repair work?

[Billy Pilgrim]

Have a look at your IE connection setting...specifically the LAN settings.

Is this configured to use a proxy server???

If it is then you are going to (somehow) configure your java app to do the same I would think.

As an example....I use Eclipse IDE (java application) for dev work - and need to connect to a ClearCase source control repository...when onsite I need to configure Eclipse to communicate with ClearCase using a proxy server.

Does your application work 'at home' when not behind a firewall???

[Cowboy Bob]

If you have the dumb Microsoft proxy server that's set up for domain authentication, then pretty much nothing other than software made by Microsoft can access the Internet through it.

What's happening here is that your browser has managed the authentication with the proxy, then the Java applet is trying to negotiate it's own connection without success.

You may have some luck if you look in the Java options inside the Windows Control Panel and play around with the network settings. If not, then you're probably sh!t out of luck.

[ChimpMaster]

Thanks for the responses guys.

Cowboy I think ur right. I have played around with the Java settings in Control Panel to make this application get this far, but this seems to be about as far as I can get.

Billy, thanks, yes I've also done that. In the Java app there is a section to enter proxy details, and I did this but unfortunately it didn't solve the connection error. It should have, as this is what I thought was needed to get thru the firewall/proxy.

The app works fine at home, i.e without a firewall/proxy server.

[DaveB]

It's probably not your proxy thats the problem.

If the remote server you are trying to connect to uses a port that has been blocked by the firewall ruleset you won't get anywhere. This would explain why you can get to the HTTP site ( using port 80, all nice and legal ) and not the SOAP server, which is probably listening on port 8880 ( The usual default port for SOAP services ) which is more than likely blocked by the firewall.

There are ways around it, none of which will go down well with the security folks on your site.

[ChimpMaster]

Dave

Sounds reasonable, though I find it odd that this is the only site I have come across in 2 years that doesn't connect here.

The proxy uses port 8080.

Any chance you could provide some clues as to what I could try??