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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] Multi-Protocol IO-Slave
From:       "Richard Moore" <richmoore44 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2008-01-13 21:57:52
Message-ID: 5491a5150801131357g1e214b10qa101a52b8a39ab6a () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 1/13/08, Thiago Macieira <thiago@kde.org> wrote:
> >convinced to use system-wide proxy settings. Currently, all those
> >applications use their own settings which is a major PITA for the
> >users.
>
> As soon as I get one implementation working in Qt and KDE (shared between
> those two), I'll propose a standard to the XDG list.

The problem is that in many cases people are using .pac files (Eg. we
do at work) which means you need a javascript interpreter to get the
proxy correct. For example you get sent down a different link via a
different proxy for some sites, whilst other sites are handled
directly.

Cheers

Rich.
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