libproxy

libproxy is a library that provides automatic proxy configuration management. The Problem Problem statement: Applications suck at correctly and consistently supporting proxy configuration. Proxy configuration is problematic for a number of reasons: 1. There are a variety of places to get configuration information 1. There are a variety of proxy types 1. Proxy auto-configuration (PAC) requires Javascript (which most applications don"t have) 1. Automatically determining PAC location requires an implementation of the WPAD protocol These issues make programming with support for proxies hard. Application developers only want to answer the question: Given a network resource, how do I reach it? Because this is their concern, most applications just give up and try to read the proxy from an environment variable. This is problematic because: 1. Given the increased use of mobile computing, network switchi

libproxy-0.4.11
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