On Dec 20, 2007 4:17 PM, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Alex Panait wrote:
> > However, you gain the ability to read configuration from GNOME or KDE
> (Mac &
> > Windows soon to come) and to perform autodetection and adjust to
> changing
> > network topology.
>
> 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.

Yeah, PAC files... Javascript, or something a lot like it. Loads of fun to
integrate... :)

See my "26 June 2002" post in the mail archives for some notes on doing
that. Not saying it can't, or shouldn't, be done, I just never had the time
to take it further than a shell script.

Ralph Mitchell
Received on 2007-12-20