Re: Polipo on Windows, known issues, help request

Am 26.01.2010 09:26, schrieb Christopher Davis:

> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 09:48:11PM +0100, ecivo wrote:
>   
>> Hey folks,
>>
>> I read your help request in the "readme.Windows" file, that ships with
>> polipo (which I obtained by installing Tor).
>>
>> Note that I'm talking about the "having to fix config-files" issues at
>> the bottom of the file, not the compile-issues.
>>
>> I thought, that the fixing of the config file for windows-usage could
>> well be done by a batch script, wich could be
>> called by the installer and I would offer to write this batch-file.
>>
>>     
> Can you describe more how this batch script would work?
>
> Thanks,
>   
sure,
as far as I've thought it through, the script would be invoked with the
installation directory of
polipo as first argument and an Integer (or string) as a second, which
controls behavior, i.e. in which of 3 standard-locations to put the
edited config :

REM INVOCATION:
REM polipo_config %(STRING)Installation-directory% %(INTEGER)where to
put edited config%
REM Behavior depending on Value of %(INTEGER)where to put edited config%
REM 1: put in polipo-Installation-directory            (DEFAULT)
REM 2: put in %all users's APPDATA%\polipo\config
REM 3: put in %current_user's APPDATA%\polipo\config   (not recommended,
due to "installing-user" may not be "using user" and reading of folder's
might be prohibited)

Then the script would switch to the given %Installation-directory% and
try to locate the config or config.sample file (as fallback) and also
the forbidden-file,
error handling for "file is not there" (i.e. search files by name and
continue normal if found, exit error-message if not)

read in config,
remove # in lines that are necessary (socksParentProxy, socks ProxyType,
dnsGethostbyname, diskCacheRoot)
add lines to define proxyport(I found this to be crucial for polipo to
work with "tor-boutton"-plugin of firefox), dnsNameServer,   and 
forbiddenFile and maybe logfile...  // in Order to have this all in a
managed way, this lines could also be read from a custom txt-file, so
that future options/changes, don't need code-changes.

write out config to choosen destination (s. INVOCATION)
since batch-files don't have return values, the string nessessary to
start polipo with the right config (ie, "-c C:\path\to\config\file)
could be stored in a txt-file in the installation dir,
so that the installer can read it and pass it on or vidalia can read it
itself ^^....


HOWEVER I want to note, that all of this could be avoided and made
unnessisary if the Windows-ports would be accompained by a config-file
or config.sample that simply declares the most nessisary options with
resonable values as follows:

proxyPort = 8118
socksParentProxy ="127.0.0.1:9050"
socksProxytype = socks5
dnsNameServer = 127.0.0.1
dnsUseGethostbyname = false
diskCacheRoot = ""

This way everything should be running smoothly and nice (at least in the
"standard-everything-on-one-maschine-used with/for-Tor-setup), however
there might be unsolvable problems with shipping a such a minimum config
with the windows-bin, that I don't see from here ^^
in the last case: mea culpa, but I offered to write the batch anyways :-)

I just would like to understand, why shipping such a pre-set config is
not within reach...

Greetings

eci




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