On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 11:17:06PM +0100, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> But I would really not hit application developers with this in their heads.
> libcurl would all of a sudden scan around the system to figure out proxy
> details (and in the case it is a remote PAC, it would even have to actually
> fetch a remote file), details that it would need to search for every time
> you create/init a new libcurl handle to make a new request - just another
> reason it makes sense to do this outside of libcurl.

I agree. But an argument could be made to add an --autodetect-proxy option
to the curl command-line. Although, making a JavaScript interpreter
a prerequisite turns curl into a pretty heavy-weight app.

>>> Dan

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