From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs and proxy on w32 Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 00:07:08 +0200 Message-ID: <42E16E0C.80507@student.lu.se> References: <42E13F59.5090101@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1122070497 20415 80.91.229.2 (22 Jul 2005 22:14:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 22:14:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 23 00:14:55 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dw5mt-0004dT-Nd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Jul 2005 00:14:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dw5p3-00018z-Ix for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:16:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dw5lK-0007fv-Kv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:12:59 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dw5lF-0007cw-2w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:12:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dw5lE-0007XL-UN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:12:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.8.164] (helo=pne-smtpout2-sn2.hy.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Dw5pi-00031h-1H; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:17:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.205.6) by pne-smtpout2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (7.2.060.1) id 42B94E29004EF3A4; Sat, 23 Jul 2005 00:07:12 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Jason Rumney In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:41144 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:41144 Jason Rumney wrote: >Lennart Borgman writes: > > > >>Is Emacs on w32 currently using winsock for urls? >> >> > >What else would it use? Our own socket layer? > > Thanks Jason, but maybe I was not explicit enough. My main (implicit) question was why I have to specify an URL proxy server to Emacs today on w32. I do not fully understand how these things work. But I guess winsock knows about the proxy servers and how to handle proxy for a specific URL? It seems to be very difficult to handle URL proxy if not winsock does not automatically find and use the proxy server.