In some environments, your application may need to connect through an HTTP proxy, for example, if your application uses a web server or gateway system to access server clusters.
Note: Oracle Connection Manager is not currently supported using the procedure described in this section. See "Oracle Connection Manager" for more information.
To connect to a server through an HTTP proxy:
Set the service name or SID:
Set the Service Name (ServiceName) option to specify the Oracle service name that specifies the database used for the connection. The service name is a string that is the global database name—a name that is comprised of the database name and domain name, for example: sales.us.acme.com.
Set the SID (SID) option to specify the Oracle System Identifier that refers to the instance of Oracle running on the server.
Set the Host (HostName) option to specify the name or the IP address of the database server to which you want to connect.
Set the Port Number (PortNumber) option to specify the port number of the database server listener.
Set the proxy server specific options:
Set the Proxy Mode (ProxyMode) option to 1 (HTTP).
Set the Proxy Host (ProxyHost) option to specify the Hostname and, if required by your environment, the Domain, of the proxy server. The value specified can be a host name, a fully qualified domain name, or an IPv4 or IPv6 address.
Set the Proxy Port (ProxyPort) option to specify the port number where the proxy server is listening for HTTP requests. The default is 0.
Optionally, set the Proxy User (ProxyUser) option to specify the user name used to connect to the Proxy Server.
Optionally, set Proxy Password (ProxyPassword) to specified the password needed to connect to the proxy server.
The following examples demonstrate a basic connection to a proxy server.
Set the service name or SID:
