[OpenLayers-Dev] ProxyHost

[Felipe Alcacibar]

Mohammed: it seems that you are some confused with the concepts of proxy.

A proxy is like a "tunnel" toi reach another host/computer/server.

The proxy mentioned http://proxy.rashadkm.in port=8080 is a HTTP
proxy, is a proxy commands for the HTTP protocol, more specify the
CONNECT HTTP method like GET, POST or HEAD, this proxy is designed to
proxy TCP/UDP Connections via HTTP.

The proxy.cgi is a HTTP server side proxy is a HTTP URL that responses
to another URL, but connects from your server, and responses you the
remote URL, that is why you need to pass it in a GET Query String
parameter, if you want to pass trought proxy.rashadkm.in proxy the
proxy.cgi script, you must need to configure it on the server, you
could see http_proxy unix environment variable or internet settings
for windows servers.

as you see both seems like are the same, but not =D

Felipe Alcacibar B.