Use a Proxy Server to Access Gnip

If you are running the Gnip Connector on a machine that is behind a proxy server, you might need to set some additional configuration parameters, so that the connector can access the internet.

To access Gnip through a proxy server

  1. Open the connector's configuration file.
  2. Find the relevant section of the configuration file:

    • To configure a proxy server for all fetch tasks, find the [FetchTasks] section.
    • To configure a proxy server for a single fetch task, find the relevant [TaskName] section.
  1. Set the following configuration parameters:

    ProxyHost The host name or IP address of the proxy server.
    ProxyPort

    The port of the proxy server.

    ProxyUsername (Optional) The user name to use to authenticate with the proxy server.
    ProxyPassword (Optional) The password to use to authenticate with the proxy server.
  2. Save and close the configuration file.