[PATCH] Multi-Protocol IO-Slave

[Richard Moore]

On 1/13/08, Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org> wrote:
> >convinced to use system-wide proxy settings. Currently, all those
> >applications use their own settings which is a major PITA for the
> >users.
>
> As soon as I get one implementation working in Qt and KDE (shared between
> those two), I'll propose a standard to the XDG list.

The problem is that in many cases people are using .pac files (Eg. we
do at work) which means you need a javascript interpreter to get the
proxy correct. For example you get sent down a different link via a
different proxy for some sites, whilst other sites are handled
directly.

Cheers

Rich.