Re: location based firewall

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel holtmann org>]

Hi Dan,

> > And proxy problem also - in Gnome I can set up system wide proxy, but it
> > is not working in console when trying to use wget, for instance. This
> > should be a setting in Network Manager and should be system wide.
> 
> Yes, if it was stored in NM it could be.  I'm not sure how wget and
> other CLI tools access proxy information though, if there even is a
> standard config file for cli tools to use.  If there was, NM could
> potentially write any proxy info out to that file.  It looks like wget
> uses command-line options or environment variables for proxy stuff,
> which isn't really possible to automatically update easily.  Perhaps it
> uses something else?
> 
> But for command-line tools, there really would need to be a standard
> config file they would look at for proxy info.

have you looked at PACrunner and its libproxy API compatible
implementation? Besides simple proxy configuration it will also
integrate nicely with PAC files. So you do not have to link every single
application against a Javascript engine.

Regards

Marcel