Re: Emacs and proxy on w32

[Lennart Borgman]

Jason Rumney wrote:

> Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> writes:
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> > Is Emacs on w32 currently using winsock for urls?
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> What else would it use? Our own socket layer?
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Thanks Jason, but maybe I was not explicit enough. My main (implicit) 
question was why I have to specify an URL proxy server to Emacs today on 
w32. I do not fully understand how these things work. But I guess 
winsock knows about the proxy servers and how to handle proxy for a 
specific URL?

It seems to be very difficult to handle URL proxy if not winsock does 
not automatically find and use the proxy server.