> From: Bill Tutt [mailto:rassilon@lyra.org]
> Sent: 11 January 2002 00:20
> > From: Joe Orton [mailto:joe@manyfish.co.uk]
> >
> > 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...
I think the rc files/registry/cmdline args should be used to override
whatever the default is returned by a 'apr_get_proxy_info()' like function.
But, maybe, that's just me.
> Well, ideally, I was assuming that http_proxy was a semi-standard
> environment variable for such things. If not, then life is just going to
It is.
> suck and then any per OS gunk that needs to happen maybe should be in
> SVN instead of APR.
>
> Kind of a shame though, because accessing the data on Win32 is pretty
> straight forward.
>
> Oh well, nobody said making life easy for the user was ever pretty code.
> :)
Going to ignore this bait ;) :P
> Bill
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