[Qgis-user] QGIS & Proxy auto configuration

[Jonathan Moules]

Hi list,
I have a feature suggestion I'll put here before logging a ticket.
Currently QGIS requires manual configuration of proxy settings, however
there's a semi-standard called "Web Proxy Autodiscovery Protocol" (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Proxy_Autodiscovery_Protocol ) which some
organisations (my own included) use to make their proxy setup more easily
transferable between machines and software applications. It also allows for
redundency (you can point at multiple proxy servers in the same file).
There's a bit more info about Proxy auto-config here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_auto-config

Would this be worth putting into QGIS? We would benefit from it, but does
anyone else's organisation use this? Anyone know anything about it?
There are already Open Source implementations out there (i.e. Firefox), so
its probably possible to nab a library from somewhere to easy
implementation.

Jonathan


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