From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs and proxy on w32 Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 23:29:37 +0100 Message-ID: References: <42E13F59.5090101@student.lu.se> <42E16E0C.80507@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 1122071812 23481 80.91.229.2 (22 Jul 2005 22:36:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 22:36:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 23 00:36:42 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dw67x-0006sJ-Is for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Jul 2005 00:36:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dw66f-00067w-7T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:35:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dw65x-0005rZ-9T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:34:17 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dw65r-0005or-Kc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:34:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dw65r-0005o3-DA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:34:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [194.106.33.237] (helo=outmail.freedom2surf.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1Dw6CP-0004e4-87 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:40:57 -0400 Original-Received: from wanchan.jasonrumney.net (i-83-67-23-108.freedom2surf.net [83.67.23.108]) by outmail.freedom2surf.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j6MMUdch014847; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 23:30:39 +0100 Original-Received: from TONKOTSU-RAMEN (tonkotsu-ramen.jasonrumney.net [10.0.0.28]) by wanchan.jasonrumney.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B67CDDD70; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 23:30:39 +0100 (BST) Original-To: Lennart Borgman In-Reply-To: <42E16E0C.80507@student.lu.se> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Sat, 23 Jul 2005 00:07:08 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (windows-nt) 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:41146 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:41146 Lennart Borgman writes: > 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? Winsock knows nothing about proxy servers or high level protocols like HTTP. It is the Windows perversion of the BSD socket API. > It seems to be very difficult to handle URL proxy if not winsock does > not automatically find and use the proxy server. Why should it be difficult? You configure it, just like in any other program that uses proxies. Unfortunately Emacs does not have an ECMAscript implementation, so pointing it at an auto configuration script is not going to be an option like it is with modern webbrowsers.