Feature changed by: Dominique Leuenberger (dimstar) Feature #305914, revision 3 Title: PAC support for 'system wide proxy configuration' openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Dominique Leuenberger (dimstar) Description: The distribution now contains libproxy and we should try to make as - much use of it as possible. A big advantage is the ability to parse PAC - (Proxy AutoConfiguration) without the need for this in every - application. Simply linking against libproxy with it's very simple API - (3 API calls, 2 without parameters) is enugh to have the advantage of - no longer needing to 'guess' what proxy to use. What is now: - You can - set in yast / proxy a general proxy to be used - (http://foo.proxy.com:1234) This is bascially put into http_proxy - envvar. In gnome you can set user proxy configuration as: - Use System - Proxy (as configured in yast) - Use proxy configuration (static, same - options as in yast) - Use automatic proxy configuration script Yast - lacks the option to specify a PAC script on system wide level. This is - only possible in the user sessions configuration. This made sense as - most applications don't know how to handle pac files anyway. But with - libroxy, this hurdle can be taken away from every single application - and can thus be offered. I'm glad to elaborate on questions; I'm sure - there are some :-) + much use of it as possible. + A big advantage is the ability to parse PAC (Proxy AutoConfiguration) + without the need for this to be implemented in every application. + Simply linking against libproxy with it's very simple API (3 API calls, + 2 without parameters) is enough to have the advantage of no longer + needing to 'guess' what proxy to use. + Current situation: + * You can set in yast / proxy a general proxy to be used + (http://foo.proxy.com:1234). This is bascially put into http_proxy + envvar. + In gnome you can set user proxy configuration as: + * Use System Proxy (as configured in yast) + * Use proxy configuration (static, same options as in yast) + * Use automatic proxy configuration script + Yast lacks the option to specify a PAC script on system wide level. + This is only possible in the user sessions configuration. This made + sense as most applications don't know how to handle pac files anyway. + But with libroxy, this hurdle can be taken away from every single + application and can thus be offered. I'm glad to elaborate on + questions; I'm sure there are some :-) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305914