Subject: Re: [htdig3-dev] What should be in new config?
From: Vadim Chekan (vadim@begemot.gc.lviv.ua)
Date: Thu Dec 09 1999 - 11:46:21 PST
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Gilles Detillieux wrote:
> > 2. "http_proxy_exclude" is list of urls, retriving which we should avoid
> > proxy.
> > I can't imagine a situation when from one url we will retrive
> > reference via proxy, but from another url directly.
>
> I added this option at the request of a user who was digging from behind
> a firewall. The proxy server on their site only served outside documents,
> not documents from local hosts, so the local hosts had to be accessed
> directly. At the time, it made sense to treat this like exclude_urls and
> do the same sort of StringMatch stuff. For the new config file stuff,
> it would likely make more sense to select your proxy at the server level,
> rather than the URL level. However, http_proxy_exclude should still
> remain, at least at the global level, for backwards compatibility.
I agree. This is sertainly good feature. I wasn't shure only if I should
make it url-depended.
Moreover. I neew it myself :)
Vadim.
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