Re: Re: HTTP proxy support (issue #579)

On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 11:02:03PM +0000, Joe Orton wrote:
> 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...

Can you figure out a good way for Subversion to deal with this, and to get
all of the various information down to Neon, and to handle the various
callbacks and whatnot? And have it use the registry on Windows?

Consider there are four pieces of data: host, port, user, pass.

Conceivably, APR should figure out the platform independent way to get a
user's proxy settings. I can easily believe that would include fetching them
from KDE. Of course, I'm not sure it is such a good idea to link against KDE
to grab that info... :-)

While your points are somewhat reasonable, I'd challenge you to find what
you think is a Good Solution. :-)

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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