From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Benjamin Riefenstahl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs and proxy on w32 Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 16:08:56 +0200 Message-ID: References: <42E13F59.5090101@student.lu.se> <42E16E0C.80507@student.lu.se> <42E17593.6040600@student.lu.se> <42E17836.8080405@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1122130018 32201 80.91.229.2 (23 Jul 2005 14:46:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 14:46:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel , Jason Rumney Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 23 16:46:49 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DwLGz-0000TC-Ea for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Jul 2005 16:46:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DwLJB-0007xd-Gl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Jul 2005 10:48:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DwLJ0-0007xF-Sy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jul 2005 10:48:46 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DwLIz-0007x3-ER for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jul 2005 10:48:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DwL8V-00059D-E6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jul 2005 10:37:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [193.99.153.30] (helo=seneca.benny.turtle-trading.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1DwKtH-0002sC-4G; Sat, 23 Jul 2005 10:22:11 -0400 Original-Received: from seneca.benny.turtle-trading.net.turtle-trading.net (seneca.benny.turtle-trading.net [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by seneca.benny.turtle-trading.net (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j6NE8vLn012571; Sat, 23 Jul 2005 16:09:01 +0200 Original-To: Lennart Borgman In-Reply-To: <42E17836.8080405@student.lu.se> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Sat, 23 Jul 2005 00:50:30 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1001 (Gnus v5.10.1) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) 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:41167 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:41167 Hi Lennart, Lennart Borgman writes: > But how do you get the name of the proxy server to use for a specif > URL then? You don't. That is unless you write your own script in ELisp. > Don't you have to find the ECMAscript and execute it? Javascript/ECMAscript is a feature of some browsers. It is *not* a feature of all those other programs that can otherwise do HTTP fine, and even a fair number of browsers don't have it. If you want to seriously support more than IE and Mozilla, Javascript proxy scripts are useless. benny