I have a cross-platform (based on V8) proxy resolver implementation in my tree. I just haven't found the time to finish it. We should probably use it. Then, we'll just need to write code to figure out what the proxy configuration is for each operating system.
I plan to change things so that the resolver works asynchronously because that will work better for the V8-based resolver (as it needs to download a PAC file potentially). -Darin On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Avi Drissman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Proxy support was thrown my way, and I've been looking at our proxy_service > and Apple's CFProxySupport. > > In 10.4, you could call SCDynamicStoreCopyProxies to get proxy info: a list > of exceptions, and proxy addresses. That was it. If you wanted to evaluate > PAC files, or parse the exception list, it was your problem. > > In 10.5, we gained an entire API for dealing with it. You can ask for > proxies for a URL, and you can have it parse PAC files, etc. (See > http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/CFProxySupportTool/listing2.html .) > > I was looking at our proxy_service, and it relies on platform-specific > proxy_resolvers. Its attempt at cross-platformity is nice but AFAICT not > sufficient. Some notes: > > - It was Win32-isms in it (see line 290 for the special format that the > proxy list is supposed to take, WPAC, etc) > - It doesn't handle asynchronicity. In Windows, WinHttpGetProxyForUrl is > synchronous, so proxy_service spawns a thread to handle the callback. On the > Mac, CFNetworkExecuteProxyAutoConfigurationURL is a fully async call that > will call back when the PAC is run. > > If we're trying to behave as Safari and the native proxy handling does on > the Mac (which I believe we are) then we should be using the proxy APIs > provided by CFNetwork. If so, though, I need to replace all of proxy_service > rather than just the _resolver, as the Mac version handles a lot more and > I'd have to do a lot of surgery on the _service to allow both async and > non-async _resolvers (for whatever the platform requests). > > Thoughts? > > Avi > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
