On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 11:31 AM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri <barbi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Today I did commit support for libproxy in ecore_con's new API, > Efl.Net.Dialer.Tcp, Efl.Net.Dialer.Http and Efl.Net.Dialer.Websocket > (implicit from HTTP). > > Libproxy (https://libproxy.github.io) tries to dynamically find a > proxy for a given URL, unlike plain $http_proxy, $no_proxy... which > needs a mess to get right in complex environments such as big > corporations. It will also use PAC - ProxyAutoConfiguration, those > JavaScript like files named wpad.dat, as well as the wpad host on the > local network, where it tries to find the JS file. > > More than that, libproxy uses the configuration from Desktop > Environments. There are none for E (some volunteer?), but we can use > the one from Gnome3/Gnome or KDE. It will also handle envvars and some > /etc/sysconf configuration. > > Just be aware that libproxy is nasty and will load many crap in your > application binary, including mozjs to interpret JS mentioned above. > > A better solution is to use libproxy replacement from pacrunner > (http://git.kernel.org/cgit/network/connman/pacrunner.git/), that one > will only pull in libdbus and the JS is done at the daemon, which also > keeps shared cache not replicating it in all processes. > > Be traditional libproxy or pacrunner's alternative, the current code > should be more dynamic, however needs more testing. If you work inside > a proxy, give it a try and report problems, you can use the > src/examples/ecore/efl_io_copier or efl_net_dialer_http_example to > test. > > It's important to get more testing as in near future I'm converting > parts of E/EFL that used ecore_con to use this and I don't want to > break things :-)
Ah, and I forgot to mention that pacrunner is developed by the same team as connman, so uses its configuration... all nicely integrated :-) -- Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri -------------------------------------- Mobile: +55 (16) 99354-9890 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
