On Wed, 16 May 2012, Dan Fandrich wrote:

>> Complicated alternatives that would be much easier solved if libcurl told
>> the app about what it figured out.
>
> How about a curl_easy_getinfo CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_PROXY option that returns
> the URL to the proxy? Seems like it might be useful in the general case,
> too.

Oh the simplicity!

Yes, that sounds like a really useful thing to add no matter what and would
suit this use-case too.

I figure that proxy string would then be a full "URL" style one with the
protocol prefixed and credentials (if any) embedded or should we provide the
proxy protocol, user names etc separately?

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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