This thread has gotten away from its original subject: having the GUI
display messages to the user.
To summarize:
1. Static messages could be displayed by a "pre" script as Selva
suggested, but that wouldn't be very portable. (Off the top of my
head, on macOS I would have such a script use AppleScript to pop up a
window to the user with the content. I assume there is a way to do the
that on Windows.)
2. Dynamic messages (created by the server, for example) cannot
currently be displayed to the user. (Except that the OpenVPN Windows
GUI might include "echo" messages in the log -- I'm not sure about
that -- but that's not highly visible to the user and Tunnelblick
doesn't do even that.)
3. Neither the Windows GUI nor Tunnelblick currently implement
anything to help with dynamic messages. They could be displayed if the
OpenVPN server pushed a new "echo message" command. It would require
agreement on the syntax and semantics of the new command, and for the
GUIs to deal with it, but would not require any change to OpenVPN
itself.
I agree with Selva that it would be a good idea to standardize "echo"
commands, so I will start a new thread about that.
Best regards,
Jon Bullard
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