[PATCH] Multi-Protocol IO-Slave

[Jeff Mitchell]

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.

I should point out that a javascript interpreter isn't strictly needed.  PAC 
files -- and what's allowable in PAC files -- are very simple and it should 
be relatively trivial to write a simple lexer to handle it.

--Jeff