httprequest work with socks proxy?

Kenley · Post by **Kenley** » Mon Nov 29, 2010 7:17 am

I'm using MacroScheduler 12.1.1.

I get to the internet over a SOCKS proxy. Internet Explorer gets out just fine; however, httprequest isn't using the socks proxy. When I add proxy server parameters to the request I get a 404 error.

I am using macroscript to access a webpage with malformed xml, screen scrape the data, and reformat the results into a csv file.

Is there any way to force httprequest method to use a SOCKS proxy?

btw - I'd like to use HTTPRequest instead of a ("InternetExplorer.Application") vbscript function because I don't know how to parse through all of the extra HTML. The beauty of HTTPRequest is that it just returns the page content without the extra HTML tags.

adroege · Post by **adroege** » Tue Nov 30, 2010 2:08 pm

The beauty of HTTPRequest is that it just returns the page content without the extra HTML tags.

I'm confused by your comment. Which extra HTML tags are you referring to? HTTPRequest returns ALL of the HTML which is necessary to render the page. It does NO pre-processing of the return from the web server.