Re: libproxy as external dependency

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Le jeudi 06 novembre 2008, à 14:32 +0100, Patryk Zawadzki a écrit :
> On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org> wrote:
> > What if the connection works in both cases, but the results are
> > different? I would guess it's up to the application to know if the
> > connection should be restarted.
> >
> > An example for this (although this is a short-life connection) is that
> > you can directly access PDF of the ACM library via a proxy while you end
> > up on a webpage asking you to login if you don't use the proxy. I guess
> > there could be similar examples -- but maybe it's not that important,
> > don't know.
> 
> But is it likely that the user remembers and manages to switch the
> proxy *during* the download to save one click?
> 
> What if while trying to read that PDF you were 90% done downloading
> another large file (say a DVD iso) that is equally accessible with or
> without a proxy? Should it be restarted from scratch as there is no
> guarantee as to data integrity in case of (range GET) resuming with
> another proxy (a different cached copy comes to mind as a trivial
> example)?

That's why I said it might be up to the application to know what to do
:-) But it might be an issue that's not really solvable without user
interaction anyway...

Vincent

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