[PATCH] Multi-Protocol IO-Slave

Kevin Krammer kevin.krammer at gmx.at
Sun Jan 13 22:27:39 GMT 2008


On Sunday 13 January 2008, Richard Moore wrote:
> 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.

Right, but there is not reason why a shared proxy service couldn't have such 
an interpreter, e.g. a D-Bus service with an API like this

<method name="GetProxyForURI">
  <arg name="uri" type="s" direction="in" />
  <arg name="proxy" type="s" direction="out" />
</method>

could resolve both static and dynamic settings.

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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