A

virtual machine request for the proxy to do forwarding operations over the connection. The virtual machine sends a

DO-PROXY

request before any content is exchanged between the virtual machine and the remote system.

direction

and

serviceURI

correspond to the

VirtualSerialPortURIBackingInfo

properties in the virtual serial port configuration. (See the

vSphere API Reference

for information about the

VirtualSerialPortURIBackingInfo

data object.)

direction

is either “C” (client) or “S” (server). If the direction indicates that the virtual machine is acting as a client,

serviceUri

identifies a remote system and the proxy initiates a connection with the remote system. If the direction indicates that the virtual machine is acting as a server,

serviceUri

identifies the network socket on the host on which the virtual machine runs. In this case, the virtual machine will accept a connection initiated by a remote system (using the proxy).

If possible, the proxy should also handle port control options, as specified by
RFC 2217.

A proxy response to indicate that it will do forwarding operations.

A proxy response to indicate that it will not do forwarding operations.