Bug#759264: apt: Please help with PAC support - proxy autoconfiguration files
On 26 August 2014 19:35, Michael Vogt <mvo@ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 07:17:18PM -0700, Michael Vogt wrote:
> > > It would be useful to support PAC (proxy autoconfiguration files) with
> > > apt. Specifically, PAC files are simple javascript files that given a
> > > URL and HOST output a proxy setting. This can be trivially hooked up
> > > with Acquire::http::Proxy-Auto-Detect, however Proxy-Auto-Detect is
> > > called only once, instead of per-host, hence one cannot easily mix
> > > repositories that require different proxies or proxy only for some
> > > repositories. Extending Proxy-Auto-Detect to pass host parameter and
> > > calling that for each host/repository would be beneficial to integrate
> > > (optionally) pac file support with apt. (Similar to how deb squid proxy
> > > support is done).
> >
> > Attached is a (untested) patch that make the Proxy-Auto-Detect a
> > per-host thing. If this looks vaguely like what you need we need to
> > add a testcase before it can go in.
>
> Looks like I forgot to attach the patch. I attach it now, Raphael
> Geissert pointed out that by using command "proxy" from the
> libproxy-tools package your use-case should be solved.
>
> Along the way I added the auto-detect to https as well. If you could
> give it a test-run, that would be awesome.
>
Unfortunately I cannot test the proposed git diff, as I can't find a
tree that I can apply it against.
Could you please commit it and push as a branch somewhere, and/or provide:
$ git format-patch origin/debian/sid
patches?
I'm using git://anonscm.debian.org/apt/apt.git and that repository
does not have apt-pkg/contrib/proxy.cc in any of its heads.
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Regards,
Dimitri.
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