From: "Dr. Peter Poeml"
To: 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 ;) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org