Re: polipo - Window Port

Juliusz Chroboczek <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.polipo.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> To date there are only 3 patches
> 1) Patch to use resolve.conf in the current working directory instead
> /etc/resolve.conf

I'm strongly opposed to that -- paths relative to cwd are seldom a good
idea.

> 2) Changed disk cache to use a constants for defining the FILE_SEPARATOR
> used so Windows now uses \ instead.

> That is the path checks will now search for \ instead of /

This is not a good idea; the Windows version should be able to take into
account the full syntax of Windows paths, rather than just this special
case.

> Additionally on windows the relative paths for specific the disk cache root
> will be converted to full paths, and finally the check to ensure the path is
> from root has been disabled for it.

?

                                        Juliusz

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