Abstract: In a system and method for drag and drop downloading of content referenced by displayed elements, a browser application user interface that includes a web page rendered by the browser application is displayed. The displayed web page includes a displayed element that references content stored at a host external to the computer system. In response to a drag and drop of the displayed web page element to a displayed drop location that corresponds to a target application which is distinct from the browser application, content downloading instructions of the browser application are executed. As a result the referenced content is downloaded from the host to the target application.

Abstract: In a mobile device operating on a wireless network, one of multiple selectable proxies and its corresponding protocol stack are selected, to proxy a request and response, based on the application making the request. Connection information for each available proxy is stored in a configuration store. The application requests a Net Proxy object for the particular proxy and protocol stack to be used. The Net Proxy object contains a subset of the stored connection information specific to the particular proxy. An HttpAction object is then created for the request, and the Net Proxy object is linked to the HttpAction object. The HttpAction object is provided to a request manager, which dispatches the request to an appropriate protocol stack, based on the content of the net Proxy object linked to the HttpAction object, which causing the request to be sent to the selected proxy.