Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (626 mails)

["Dominique Leuenberger" <Dominique.Leuenberger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > >
> From: "Dr. Peter Poeml" <poeml@xxxxxxx>
> To:<opensuse-factory@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 3/6/2008 17:51
> Subject: Re: [opensuse-factory] Curl (and thus zypper) and proxy auto 
> configuration scripts
> Can such a PAC also be used by curl? So far I did not find anything
> that seems to work (in fact it might be a bit to complex for curl, as
> a PAC is a JS file... and thus ajavascript engine would be required).
>
> But it would be very handy to have this feature.. and maybe I'm just
> missing out on how to set things up? Otherwise: do you think an
> enhancement request has any value to get added at a future point?
>
> Dominique
>
> Yes, that would be an interesting feature. Linux is a bit lacking here.
> But it can be very convienient because the client could automatically
> know thata proxy.pac rules file exists, and the info as such can already
> be propagated by the DHCP client. As you say, it would requite a
> javascript interpreter, but it would be useful. A minimalistic approach
> might do.

Indeed, some more flexibility and usage of established tools can never hurt. 
It's a pitty that I can set such things in FireFox, but then for zypper (curl) 
I need to fiddle with some other config parameters.... communicating the url to 
the proxy pac is rather easy, and as it's a http:// all user somehow even 
'understand' it (well: of course not.. but they believe).

Maybe some more discussions, also with libcurl authors can bring some light to 
the end of the tunnel.

Dominique

PS: Peter, whenever I reply to one of your mails, the reply format is 
completely borken and the quoting char (>) is not added. Is this a known 
feature of my client (being Groupwise) or of yours? I for myself hate it ;)

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