Re: Proxy server policy [was Re: gated]

1997-12-18 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Adam P. Harris wrote: > I think there's not really much way we can get them to get netscape to > respect this; I don't think it's worth it to munge thru the (quite > volatile) netscape preferences either. We can use the automatic proxy configuration and point users at that. We could h

Re: Proxy server policy [was Re: gated]

1997-12-18 Thread Adam P. Harris
[You (Adrian Bridgett)] >We should also standardize the environment variables that are used. Once >again, if the program doesn't support environment variables, tough - >although of course maintainers are encouraged to "fix" the programs :-) Maybe just enforce the standards that are kinda sorta al

Re: Proxy server policy [was Re: gated]

1997-12-16 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Thu, Dec 11, 1997 at 12:15:11PM -0500, Charles Briscoe-Smith wrote: > Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On 10 Dec 1997, Charles Briscoe-Smith wrote: > >> ...and so on. I'm not sure that you can ever have a scheme that will work > >> for -all- the wierd and wonderful proxies, caches

Re: Proxy server policy [was Re: gated]

1997-12-11 Thread Charles Briscoe-Smith
Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 10 Dec 1997, Charles Briscoe-Smith wrote: >> ...and so on. I'm not sure that you can ever have a scheme that will work >> for -all- the wierd and wonderful proxies, caches and firewalls out there. >> >> (This cache is something that was knocked up lo

Re: Proxy server policy [was Re: gated]

1997-12-11 Thread Charles Briscoe-Smith
Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 10 Dec 1997, Charles Briscoe-Smith wrote: >> ...and so on. I'm not sure that you can ever have a scheme that will work >> for -all- the wierd and wonderful proxies, caches and firewalls out there. >> >> (This cache is something that was knocked up lo

Re: Proxy server policy [was Re: gated]

1997-12-10 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 10 Dec 1997, Charles Briscoe-Smith wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Well, http is pretty simple, it's either authenticated or unauthenticated > >HTTP proxy protocol. There should be a way to specifiy for which hosts it > >applies to..

Re: Proxy server policy [was Re: gated]

1997-12-10 Thread Charles Briscoe-Smith
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Well, http is pretty simple, it's either authenticated or unauthenticated >HTTP proxy protocol. There should be a way to specifiy for which hosts it >applies to.. You could also do HTTP over socks4/5 but that's a bit sill

Re: Proxy server policy [was Re: gated]

1997-12-09 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > > > We should have a standard place for these things - say: > > > > > > /etc/proxies > > > > > > http="http://www.proxy.company.com:80"; > > > ftp="ftp://ftpproxy.firewall.com"; > > > > > > How about making this policy. I realise that mo

Re: Proxy server policy [was Re: gated]

1997-12-09 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sun, Dec 07, 1997 at 02:09:57PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > > > This is one area where Windows has got a far better solution that Unix. I'm > > sure it's for technical regions, but I have at least ten different areas in > > which I set proxy s

Re: Proxy server policy [was Re: gated]

1997-12-07 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > This is one area where Windows has got a far better solution that Unix. I'm > sure it's for technical regions, but I have at least ten different areas in > which I set proxy servers and I'm fed up with it. > > We should have a standard place for thes

Proxy server policy [was Re: gated]

1997-12-07 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sat, Dec 06, 1997 at 02:26:26PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 6 Dec, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > > > Dirk> wget works for me behind a firewall at work. All it needs are the > > Dirk> http_proxy and ftp_proxy environment variables pointing the correct > > Dirk> proxy server. > >