Can we just make all platforms support globs and masks?
-Darin

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 6:26 AM, Avi Drissman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I was actually reconsidering this on the way to work today. I'm trying to
> find some documentation for the Mac list, and I think it does handle
> asterisks too. I now don't think doing a split is worth the bother.
>
> (Back to code...)
>
> Avi
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Darin Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Avi Drissman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> WPAD just means use http://wpad/wpad.dat as the PAC URL.  This is
>>>> supported by Firefox on all platforms, and it is easy to support in Chrome
>>>> ;-)
>>>>
>>>
>>> Right, but the question is where the switch is. Firefox uses its own UI
>>> (and IIRC doesn't use system proxy settings) so there's a place to turn that
>>> on/off. There's a switch in the headers:
>>> kSCPropNetProxiesProxyAutoDiscoveryEnable, but I don't know where that lives
>>> in the UI.
>>>
>>>
>>>> Interesting.  Mozilla supports that syntax as well.  Is the expectation
>>>> that hostnames will be resolved prior to consulting that list?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I'd hope so. Otherwise... eew.
>>>
>>> BTW, I'm splitting the "seeing if the site is on the list" per-platform.
>>> Each platform seems to have different rules (the Mac has CIDR, Windows has
>>> "<local>", etc).
>>>
>>
>>
>> It doesn't sound like a platform difference really.  I think it would be
>> better to just support that masking syntax in addition to globs.  Or, maybe
>> we can have an #ifdef that controls whether we support that or globs.  We
>> could also just have two separate .cc files, and only compile one or the
>> other.  Or, was there some OS API that would do the parsing and comparing
>> for you?
>>
>> -Darin
>>
>
>

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