Re: HTTP proxy support (issue #579)

Joe Orton <joe@manyfish.co.uk> writes:

> On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 02:43:38PM -0800, Bill Tutt wrote:
> > Ideally what we'd want is an APR, or APR_UTIL function with a prototype
> > that looks something like: 'apr_get_proxy_info(apr_proxy_info_t *)'
>
> Eeek! This is a UI/configuration issue - surely this stuff needs to be
> driven from the top, subversion/clients/<yourui>/? A KDE SVN UI may
> want to inherit global KDE proxy settings, Win32 uses the registry,
> cmdline uses rc files, getenv(), cmd-line args or whatever...

The UI could access whatever fancy configuration system it wants and
then setenv() the environment variable that apr will retrieve. Or
there could be an apr_set_proxy_info() function to alter the
information that would otherwise be returned by apr_get_proxy_info(),
i.e., provide a "standard" way of configuring the proxy (an
environment variable on Unix) but allow an application to override it.

Hmm, I don't know much about proxy settings, is it possible that a
single application would want different settings for different
connections?

-- 
Philip
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