Re: Announcing GNOME Network Proxy Resolver

["James Henstridge" <james jamesh id au>]

On 26/10/06, Christian Persch <chpe gnome org> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> please let me introduce the latest addition to the category of totally
> useless software by announcing...
>
>         GNOME Network Proxy Resolver !
>
> What it is
> ==========
>
> GNOME Network Proxy Resolver provides proxy lookup with PAC support via
> DBUS. This allows other programmes to support the "Automatic proxy
> configuration" option from GNOME control centre's Network Preferences
> without embedding a JavaScript interpreter just for this tiny feature.

Have you considered adding support for web proxy autodetection to this
(the "Auto-detect proxy settings for this network" option in firefox).
There is a copy of the internet draft available here:

   http://www.web-cache.com/Writings/Internet-Drafts/draft-ietf-wrec-wpad-01.txt

It is basically a protocol for discovering the location of the PAC
file for a network, using DHCP or DNS.  As I understand it, the DHCP
part of the spec should be possible using NetworkManager.  The DNS
based lookup should work without it.

James.