Re: Mockup of the GNOME proxy dialog

From: Joe Shaw <joe ximian com>
To: Ross Burton <ross burtonini com>
Cc: GNOME Desktop Hackers <desktop-devel-list gnome org>
Subject: Re: Mockup of the GNOME proxy dialog
Date: 11 Oct 2002 15:29:29 -0400

On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 12:33, Ross Burton wrote:
> I didn't read all of the original thread, but doesn't the "auto
> configuration URL" feature involve parsing HTML and JavaScript?

It's just javascript, and it's not parsing javascript, it's executing
it.  The file downloaded contains (mostly) arbitrary javascript which is
executed by the client, and that determines the proxy settings for the
client.

Joe

References:
- Mockup of the GNOME proxy dialog
  - From: Gaute Lindkvist
- Re: Mockup of the GNOME proxy dialog
  - From: Ross Burton

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