Re: [Openvpn-devel] Any volunteer Windows devs to change OpenVPN proxying code to use "new" InternetQueryOption API?

[Alon Bar-L. <alo...@gm...>]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Heiko Hund <hh...@as...> wrote:
>> > If the service is started by the GUI it still makes sense to use user
>> > specific proxy settings, doesn't it? One could consider auto-proxy for
>> > auto-started VPNs a misconfiguration, as well. Or am I mislead?
>>
>> If this is a service that is started, it cannot access your proxy
>> without more tweaks.
>
> Currently not that's true, but the service interface needs to be extended to
> pass data between the GUI and openvpn in the future anyways.

‎True.
The proxy should be provided via the management interface.
The OpenVPN GUI should be rewritten in order to use the management
interface and only the management interface.
This will solve a lot of issues especially in Windows environment.
In Linux it is not that important, as OpenVPN can run in none privileged mode.