Re: proxy implementation

[Andrew Berkley <ajb6@cornell.edu>]

Ueli,

The ConfigurationManager is useable -- though the naming of the config
files is a little weird.  See netmanager::netmanager() for an example
where the ConfigurationManager is used.

Hopefully I'll get some time soon and help out some more, but for now I
can't.

Good work with the proxy protocol handler.  I wish we could find a way
around modifying all the protocol handlers to add proxy calls (I suppose
it is unavoidable).

Your way provides for an easy method for configuring the proxy stuff (the
proxy handler provides it's own config form) -- once the display manager
gets far enough along to start handling config issues, we can make the
config manager do the HTML form configuration method correctly, so we can
have all sorts of need configuring going on.

You raised a good question in the proxy.txt file -- how the netmanager can
order requests.  We need a mechanism to do this.  I think perhaps adding a
new call to all Protocol Handlers like int ProtocolHandler::Order() where
the returned int is a preference for order.  Hmmm.

Andrew