On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:36:52 +0800
Kacheong Poon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Michael Hunter wrote:
>
> > OTOH I don't see why we couldn't provide the functionality that would
> > allow the user to specify if/how WPAD settings and/or Bonjour settings
> > were also written to a pac file for consumption by non WPAD/Boujour aware
> > applications. Maybe thats what you meant by 3 above.
>
>
> The problem with this is that it is not platform independent.
> For example, 3 is GNOME specific. Some communities may not
> like the idea. And I don't really think that we can solve
> the problem for non WPAD/Boujour apps. Either they use
> environment variables or manual input, and we cannot do much
> in both cases.
So the fact many browsers support 3 on OUR platform wouldn't make it
worthwhile to give the user a mechanism to propagate his wpad/bonjour
inputs into the gnome configuration space[1]? But it would be worthwhile to
hack up the wpad response even if just for the browser as you suggest
in another thread????
mph
[1] Does Avahi do some of this natively?
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