[systemd-devel] [RFC 0/6] A network proxy management daemon, systemd-proxy-discoveryd

[Tom Gundersen]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Tomasz Bursztyka
<tomasz.bursztyka at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> Hi,

Hi Tomasz!

> As it has been discussed in the systemd hackfest during the Linux Conference
> Europe, one daemon could centralize the management of all network proxy
> configurations. Idea is something user can do per-application (like in
> firefox for instance) or broader (per-DM like in Gnome), user could do it
> once and for all through such daemon and applications would then request it
> to know whether or not a proxy has to be used and which one.
>
> As a notice, this is nothing new. Such standalone daemon has been already
> done by the past, pacrunner. systemd-proxy-discoveryd will more or less
> implement the same ideas with improvements. It will get rid of big JS
> engines like spidermonkey or v8 which are overkill for the tiny PAC files
> to be executed on, for instance. From pacrunner experience, APIs will be
> also improved.
>
> This one is using - at least in this RFC - the duktape JS engine to run
> the PAC files. Note it is not provided in this patchset. Latest version
> 1.2.x was used.

Thanks for working on this, looks promising! I made some minor
comments on the individual patches.

Cheers,

Tom

> Next features to come are a bit detailed in the TODO (last patch).
>
> Tomasz Bursztyka (6):
>   proxy-discoveryd: Basic core added
>   proxy-discoveryd: Add the basics for parsing the default configuration
>   proxy-discoveryd: Add PAC support through duktape js engine
>   proxy-discoveryd: Execute the PAC based proxy in a thread
>   proxy-discoveryd: Add the basic parts for handling DBus methods
>   update TODO
>
>  .gitignore                                         |   1 +
>  Makefile.am                                        |  38 +++++
>  TODO                                               |  10 ++
>  configure.ac                                       |  11 ++
>  src/proxy-discovery/.gitignore                     |   1 +
>  .../org.freedesktop.proxydiscovery1.conf           |  46 ++++++
>  .../org.freedesktop.proxydiscovery1.service        |  12 ++
>  src/proxy-discovery/proxy-discoveryd-bus.c         |  48 ++++++
>  src/proxy-discovery/proxy-discoveryd-manager.c     | 156 ++++++++++++++++++
>  src/proxy-discovery/proxy-discoveryd-pac.c         | 182 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  .../proxy-discoveryd-proxy-gperf.gperf             |  17 ++
>  src/proxy-discovery/proxy-discoveryd-proxy.c       | 135 +++++++++++++++
>  src/proxy-discovery/proxy-discoveryd.c             |  77 +++++++++
>  src/proxy-discovery/proxy-discoveryd.h             |  84 ++++++++++
>  units/.gitignore                                   |   1 +
>  units/org.freedesktop.proxydiscovery1.busname      |  15 ++
>  units/systemd-proxy-discoveryd.service.in          |  18 ++
>  17 files changed, 852 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 src/proxy-discovery/.gitignore
>  create mode 100644 src/proxy-discovery/org.freedesktop.proxydiscovery1.conf
>  create mode 100644 src/proxy-discovery/org.freedesktop.proxydiscovery1.service
>  create mode 100644 src/proxy-discovery/proxy-discoveryd-bus.c
>  create mode 100644 src/proxy-discovery/proxy-discoveryd-manager.c
>  create mode 100644 src/proxy-discovery/proxy-discoveryd-pac.c
>  create mode 100644 src/proxy-discovery/proxy-discoveryd-proxy-gperf.gperf
>  create mode 100644 src/proxy-discovery/proxy-discoveryd-proxy.c
>  create mode 100644 src/proxy-discovery/proxy-discoveryd.c
>  create mode 100644 src/proxy-discovery/proxy-discoveryd.h
>  create mode 100644 units/org.freedesktop.proxydiscovery1.busname
>  create mode 100644 units/systemd-proxy-discoveryd.service.in
>
> --
> 2.0.5
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