BlackFog makes use of Microsoft’s Windows HTTP Services (WinHTTP) rather than the alternative Windows Internet (WinINET) mechanism to communicate via SSL with the BlackFog servers.
WinHTTP proxys are configured system wide as opposed to the user based setup of WinINET.
Setup can be achieved using netsh.exe or the deprecated proxycfg.exe applications on the machine. Auto configuration with Web Proxy Auto-discovery Protocol (WPAD) is not recommended for performance reasons as this will generate significant delays inside the application.
Encrypted proxy servers
Note that if you are using an encrypted Proxy server then all network traffic is effectively hidden on the operating system and BlackFog will only be able to see the traffic going to the Proxy rather than the final destination. As a result some of the features of BlackFog will be limited until the device is outside that network.
Setting up the proxy server
To configure BlackFog to use a proxy use the following command at the command line when running as an administrator.
Direct access (no proxy server).