#1230 Manual/Modification: when is autoproxy hooked to http

[Harald Oehlmann]

IMHO, the following fact is:
- not very handy
- not clearly expressed in the manual
The autoproxy module only hooks into the http module by:
http::config -proxyfilter [namespace origin filter]
when:
- autoproxy::init is called
- and a proxy is found in the system or specified to the command

A proxy specification by:
autoproxy::configure -proxy_host ...
does not hook autoproxy into http and thus just does nothing.
A:
autoproxy::configure -proxy_host ""
does not unhook the autoproxy module (which is propably no issue but might be done too)

Bug or feature ?

I propose to:
- change autoproxy::configure to hook autoproxy, if the option proxy_port is configured with a value
- perhaps document the parameters of autoproxy::init
Specially, I find the used format very handy for own configuration options:
URL and comma-separated proxy exception list
the attached patch works for me.

See this clt-thread for the discussion:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/f04ff7683d61cc45/08150dfe8ce5b5d6#08150dfe8ce5b5d6

Thanks to Alexandre to work this out !!!

Harald

[Harald Oehlmann]

autoproxy patch: hook into http on configure -proxy_host