From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
Cc: Benjamin Riefenstahl <b.riefenstahl@turtle-trading.net>,
Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Emacs and proxy on w32
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 01:22:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42E2D133.6030700@student.lu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ur7dp2klh.fsf@jasonrumney.net>
Jason Rumney wrote:
>Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se> writes:
>
>
>
>>I did not believe it was such a mess.
>>
>>
>
>It's not a mess. Although it is theoretically possible to write
>complicated autoproxy scripts that use a different proxy for different
>hosts, in practice all anyone ever uses is a single proxy and a list
>of no-proxy hosts.
>
>
How does one find out this single proxy and the list of no-proxy hosts
then? Is not that complicated procedure with perhaps an ECMAscript to
call required?
>
>
>>While looking more at this I found that MS actually are providing an
>>API (WinHttpGetProxyForUrl) for this now on XP and W2k.
>>
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>It is not an OS API, it is an Internet Explorer API, and the first
>parameter is a handle to an open "INTERNET_SESSION", created by
>another function in the same API, so if you start down that road
>you'll end up having to continue, and that would restrict the
>networking capabilities of Emacs to what is supported by IE. Not to
>mention that IE is not Free, and thus unsuitable to build Free
>software on top of.
>
>
I do not understand the difference between an OS and and IE API. Could
you explain? There is a page about WinHTTP that does not seem to make
such difference between WinINet and WinHTTP:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winhttp/http/about_winhttp.asp
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-23 23:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-22 18:47 Emacs and proxy on w32 Lennart Borgman
2005-07-22 21:55 ` Jason Rumney
2005-07-22 22:07 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-07-22 22:29 ` Jason Rumney
2005-07-22 22:39 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-07-22 22:45 ` Jason Rumney
2005-07-22 22:50 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-07-23 14:08 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2005-07-23 22:39 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-07-23 23:01 ` Jason Rumney
2005-07-23 23:22 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2005-07-24 16:35 ` Jason Rumney
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