Re: A sole, standard proxy library for Fedora

["Arthur Pemberton" <pemboa gmail com>]

On 5/27/06, Cam <camilo mesias co uk> wrote:
> Philip
>
> > I have a laptop that travels with me from work (where there's the
> > use of web proxies) to home (where I don't), and was overwhelmed
> > by the number of config files that I have to switch over every time
> > I move from one place to the other.
>
> How about having a lightweight proxy on every machine. All configuration
> should point to the local proxy.
>
> When the network changes, only the proxy need be informed of the changes.
>
> It's a horrible hack, I know :) but configuration in the environment
> isn't dynamic enough, and hell will freeze over before any new
> configuration scheme reaches the level of acceptance that http_proxy in
> env has.
>
> -Cam

I think that is a bit over kill. Quite possible, an iptables approach
to make things more transperent, along with system wide applying of
proxy configs (maybe a plugin system so diff. apps can let the
configuring app know where to find them) might be easier to do.
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