[ ijbswa-Feature Requests-3502414 ] Add proxy list support

Feature Requests item #3502414, was opened at 2012-03-12 00:44
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Category: Configuration
Group: future
>Status: Pending
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Bekler (bekler)
>Assigned to: Fabian Keil (fabiankeil)
Summary: Add proxy list support

Initial Comment:
Add support for a list of external proxies. 

Add to Section 5 of the file config.txt option for the file that contains a list of proxy servers. For example: 
forwarding-proxy-list ./proxy-list.txt # file with list of proxy servers 
forwarding-proxy-time-to-change 30 # time in seconds to change active proxy-server

Proxy-list.txt file should contain a list of working proxies. For example: 
proxy-server1.com: 8080 
proxy-server2.net: 3128

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>Comment By: Fabian Keil (fabiankeil)
Date: 2012-03-12 10:59

Message:
Thanks for the suggestion.

Note that Privoxy currently allows to chose the proxy depending on the URL
and with your proposal that flexibility would be lost.

On the TODO list there's already an item to allow to specify fallback
proxies. Once we have a fallback policy, we could add other policies to
chose the proxy like round-robin or time-based load balancing.

If we additionally had a "include" directive we would have a more general
solution that would allow to do everything you want, except that the syntax
would be a bit different. I though the "include" already was on the TODO
list, but apparently I didn't push the branch yet.

Having said that, it's not clear to me that proxy load balancing belongs
into Privoxy itself when it can already be done through DNS or the packet
filter. I'm aware that doing that on Windows might be complicated, though.

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