Firewall and Proxy
Connecting Through a Firewall or Proxy
HTTP Proxies
Note: The driver uses the system proxy settings by default, without further configuration needed. If you want to connect to other proxies, set ProxyAutoDetect to False and read further.To authenticate to an HTTP proxy, set the following:
- ProxyServer: the hostname or IP address of the proxy server that you want to route HTTP traffic through.
- ProxyPort: the TCP port that the proxy server is running on.
- ProxyAuthScheme: the authentication method the driver uses when authenticating to the proxy server.
- ProxyUser: the username of a user account registered with the proxy server.
- ProxyPassword: the password associated with the ProxyUser.
Other Proxies
Set the following properties:
- To use a proxy-based firewall, set FirewallType, FirewallServer, and FirewallPort.
- To tunnel the connection, set FirewallType to TUNNEL.
- To authenticate, specify FirewallUser and FirewallPassword.
- To authenticate to a SOCKS proxy, additionally set FirewallType to SOCKS5.