On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 05:24:02PM -0400, Roth, Kevin P. wrote:
> I suspect if you volunteered to write such a thing, it might make it into curl.exe a bit faster ;-) I don't recall for sure, but I don't think Daniel's ever expressed a specific desire *not* to have one of these in there.
>
> In your corporate environment can you really not simply hard code a proxy server (or two)? I also don't think curl supports specification of multiple proxy servers (with the ability to use the 2nd one automatically if the first doesn't answer), but that ability would have to be added to truly support APC; if *just* that ability were added, would it be sufficient for your environment? (of course, you could add it already via script...)

No... that doesn't work. (tried it already). You need to go through the
automatic server - at least the way they've set it up here, the end-proxies only
accept connects from the central proxy, and the end proxies send back a direct
connection to your local workstation.

Trying to bypass any of this is prohibited, because for one, they don't want you
to work around their 'protections' against people 'accessing inappropriate
sites'. And since websense is pretty common, (and will get more common as
networks do filtering) this results in a *huge* usability hole for curl.

I'd be happy to do it if I had the technical background/knowhow on how to
do it - it seems like a complicated hack though, and I'm not sure I'd have
enough CPU cycles to understand and do it correctly.

Ed

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