Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH 0/3] better --auto-proxy support for Windows

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

Won't it make it harder to configure openvpn as service?

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Heiko Hund <hei...@so...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the auto-proxy support for Windows was rather sub-optimal. Since Internet
> Explorer 5 proxy settings were configured with the network or VPN connection,
> but OpenVPN always queried the settings for the LAN connection. Truely automatic
> proxy configuration via WPAD and PAC script was not used, either.
>
> This patch series tries to change that. Auto proxy detetction is done with
> WinHTTP which has support for WPAD, PAC and per connection proxy settings.
>
> Another thing that is changed is the time at which the auto proxy config
> takes place in OpenVPN. Instead of doing it once during start-up, potentially
> changed settings are now fetched once every connect.
>
> Heiko Hund (3):
>  add MinGW WinHTTP compatibility layer
>  do automatic proxy detection on Windows right
>  query auto-proxy information when connecting
>
>  configure.ac |   30 ++++++++++
>  init.c       |   23 ++++++-
>  openvpn.8    |    9 ++-
>  options.c    |   15 ++---
>  options.h    |    2 +-
>  proxy.c      |  173 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------
>  proxy.h      |    4 +-
>  win32.c      |  108 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  win32.h      |   61 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  9 files changed, 330 insertions(+), 95 deletions(-)
>
> Regards
> Heiko
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