[systemd-devel] [RFC 2/6] proxy-discoveryd: Add the basics for parsing the default configuration

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 10.04.15 15:22, Marcel Holtmann (marcel at holtmann.org) wrote:

> Hi Lennart,
> 
> >> The config file will be in /etc/systemd/proxy/<filename>.conf
> >> 
> >> It currently only load "Proxy" parts, with the key PAC. Rest is ignored.
> >> The PAC keyword is a path to a .pac file (a specific js script for proxy
> >> configuration).
> >> 
> >> Only one PAC based proxy configuration will be loaded at a time.
> > 
> > (Just a side note: I figure in the long run we should probably track
> > PAC data per-interface (plus maybe one global setting), so that
> > clients can query this specifically for an interface, and so that we
> > can search PAC data over the right network. But I figure for now this
> > doesn't matter too much.).
> 
> why would you have a global PAC file. I think they should be all per
> interface and nothing else.

Well, maybe not a global PAC file, but probably an explicitly
configurable global HTTP proxy, if people want that... I mean, it is a
pretty common setting to have I figure, and the daemon should
proibably cover both PAC and straightforward proxy config...

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat