On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 04:16:54 +0100, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
Hello,
in our company, for Internet Explorer, Firefox and the like, we have setup a proxy autoconfiguration script (proxy.pac) to have centralized management of how browsers connect and what proxy they use, including possible exception rules.
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. Peter -- "WARNING: This bug is visible to non-employees. Please be respectful!" SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Research & Development