Re: Regarding proxy autoconfiguration in polipo

>     Related to the same question: is there any other (recommended)
> solution to obtain some kind of "layer 7 routing" for HTTP?

If you want to do the proxy selection in the user-agent, then there's
the proxy.pac mechanism, and also a FireFox extension called "FoxyProxy"
(which is what I use).

>     I mean is there any SOCKS / HTTP proxy server (which can be put
> upstream of Polipo), that allows this kind of "routing" of connections
> (requests) based on rules (destination IP (in case of SOCKS) or URL
> based (in case of HTTP))?

I think it would be a worthwile addition to Polipo.  The trouble is that
it would require designing some sort of configuration language, which is
always a pain.

Note that proxy.pac is not a suitable format, since it requires having
a full Javascript interpreter in the proxy, and doesn't allow static
analysis of the rules.

                                        Juliusz

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