Re: Emacs and proxy on w32

[Lennart Borgman]

Jason Rumney wrote:

> Winsock knows nothing about proxy servers or high level protocols like
> HTTP. It is the Windows perversion of the BSD socket API.
>
>  
>
> > It seems to be very difficult to handle URL proxy if not winsock does
> > not automatically find and use the proxy server.
> >    
>
> Why should it be difficult? You configure it, just like in any other
> program that uses proxies. Unfortunately Emacs does not have an
> ECMAscript implementation, so pointing it at an auto configuration
> script is not going to be an option like it is with modern
> webbrowsers.
>  
I hoped that winsock knew how to handle the ECMAscripts, but you mean 
that is not the case? So any application that wants to go through a 
proxy server must be able to retrieve and execute ECMAscripts itself?

Well, I feared this, but I am still a bit surprised. Has anyone done a 
general solution for this (when there is no web-browser involved)? What 
does the commercial solutions do?