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Have following situation, would need to monitor some servers, including DNS servers local, this works perfect with freeNATs, but would need also to check availability of some servers only reachable via a proxy server. Now this proxy server setting for each test (proxy server could be http/https/socks4 or5 with or without login) At the moment this is not possible...would be really nice to have as new feature Dave ? As temporary work around, is it possible to use linux command http_proxy to make all http tests via this proxy ? I am not a linux man, but what i know the http_proxy works only for low level wget etc....not sure how/if this would work with freeNATs ?
Any help appreciated, Thanks, Wolfgang

Hi Wolfgang,

I was actually just starting to look at something like this a few weeks back - the intention being to make a test which tested the proxy itself (though of course equally it tests a connection through the proxy).

The internal http test doesn't use wget or anything command-line it uses inbuilt PHP streams or the CURL library if available. The proxy test would be using CURL as this has native support for proxies.

I will hopefully get a chance to pull together a custom test sometime this week which has proxy support. It will certainly do HTTP/S and I will let you know about SOCKS once a trial version is complete.

Regards,

Dave.