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auto detecting proxy settings #475

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
It is not a problem, but a feature request, most of the browsers support auto 
detecting 
proxy settings by fetching a javascript page:

IE reads http://wpad.fqdn/wpad.dat
FF and brothers read http://proxy.fqdn/proxy.pac

one of these can be symlink to other, although this requires one to run a web 
and name 
servers of ones own, but life can be made quite easy if one knows what one is 
doing.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
arora must try fetching one of the above file for auto detecting proxy 
settings, which an 
admin may optimize per requirements.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
0.7.1, qt 4.5 (ArchLinux), qt 4.5 (Debian) qt 4.4 (FreeBSD)

Original issue reported on code.google.com by bdhee...@gmail.com on 9 Jun 2009 at 7:42

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I have an initial implementation for this at 
https://github.com/equalsraf/arora/tree/tb-wpad.
It is not complete yet, but it should at least download the proper PAC file and 
try to parse it.

Unfortunately I don't have a network where I can properly test this. Can anyone 
test this?

Original comment by equals...@gmail.com on 8 Apr 2011 at 9:41

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I can't use arora at work because of that :/. I think it would be a very useful 
feature.

Original comment by jerome.c...@gmail.com on 26 Jun 2012 at 2:06