Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (626 mails)

["Dr. Peter Poeml" <poeml@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Dominique,

On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 05:06:52 +0100, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
> > 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.

Another approach would be a local proxy, which uses upstream proxies
according to proxy.pac. That would mean that no existing commandline
too, installer, browser, HTTP library would need to know about it, and
none of them would need to be adapted, or link to anything. They would
just use the local proxy. The proxy would act as a simple forward proxy
(passing requests through) if there is no proxy.pac file in use.

Maybe there even already is a squid with libproxy extension? Don't know.

> 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 ;)

I'm not sure -- I use mutt, and I didn't do anything particular to your
mail, except wrapping the long lines. Sorry about that :-)

Peter
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