A solution to the Galeon situation?

[George J Karabin]

However, none of these implementations are per-session, which is the
point I was making there. I.e., you can't open two browser sessions, one
of which uses one method of selecting a proxy for a given URL, and the
other session uses some other method, which is what Joel was talking
about.

FYI, WPAD is an (expired) internet draft standard built on top of PAC. A
nice intro to WPAD is here: http://wlug.org.nz/WPAD . I'm looking into
building a library to let any application (not just browsers with
built-in javascript hooks) take advantage of the protocol. 

None of this really helps Joel, though, who needs independent manual
control over the selection of the proxy at run time. That's the sort of
thing that needs UI work in each application, whereas what I'm working
toward is under the hood.

- George

On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 12:16, Paul Jakma wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, George J Karabin wrote:
> 
> > I can't think of any existing browsers or programs that I've used
> > (mozilla, IE) that provide a per-session choice of proxy
> > configuration. Am I off base there?
> 
> Netscape, IE, Opera, Mozilla and galeon all support Netscape's proxy
> autoconfig specification, latter known as PAC i think, which defines
> a set of javascript functions that can be used on a per URL basis to
> determine whether or not and which proxy to use:
> 
> 	http://wp.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/2.0/relnotes/demo/proxy-live.html
> 
> 	http://www.proxys4all.com/pac.shtml
> 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > - George
> 
> regards,