Re: Alt-Svc #62: proxies

On 12.06.2015 18:30, Martin Thomson wrote:
> On 12 June 2015 at 01:32, Roland Zink <roland@zinks.de> wrote:
>> In that spirit the client should use the alternate service as URL when
>> looking up which proxy to use in a PAC file. But what is the corresponding
>> URL to use, e.g. should http://www.service.com:443/,
>> https://www.service.com/ or http_opportunistic_security://www.service.com/
>> be used?
> Actually, I think not.  That means that proxies could become the
> source of routing problems for users, but the right way to address
> this is to have the proxy understand alternative services.  Or to
> provide additional inputs, either to the CONNECT request or the query
> to proxy.pac.
So the additional input is missing so far in the text and there are no 
plans to add them. I find it confusing if sometimes proxies should be 
used and sometimes not depending on how the proxy to use is configured.

Roland

Received on Friday, 12 June 2015 20:13:06 UTC