On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:40:51 +0800
Kacheong Poon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
> For 3, NWAM can change the host GConf setting based on the
> network environment. But this only works for GNOME apps.
>
> For 4, NWAM can probably do the following. NWAM can perform
> WPAD and check if there is proxy info available from any
> server (we need to figure out what to do if there are multiple
> servers providing different info). If the info is available,
> then NWAM may do nothing. A WPAD aware app will find the
> proper info from the server(s). But if there is no proxy
> info available from the server(s) and there is a NWAM proxy
> setting associated with the current network environment, NWAM
> may "fake" a DHCP server (*) reply using that info to any query
I'm not a fan of us faking a response from a DHCP server. That seems
very fragile.
> done by WPAD aware apps. The WPAD aware app will take this
> info. If there is proxy info available from the server(s) and
> there is also a NWAM proxy setting, NWAM can still "fake" a
> DHCP server reply if the setting is supposed to override the
> proxy info from the server(s).
>
> For 5, NWAM can also do the Bonjour/Avahi discovery and use
> a similar method as described above.
OTOH I don't see why we couldn't provide the functionality that would
allow the user to specify if/how WPAD settings and/or Bonjour settings
were also written to a pac file for consumption by non WPAD/Boujour aware
applications. Maybe thats what you meant by 3 above.
mph
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