IE proxy settings extension

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Wed Nov 3 16:51:31 CDT 2010


On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 16:46 -0500, Steve Borho wrote:
> Attached is an extension that I've just written with the intention of
> automatically reading proxy settings from the Internet Explorer's
> registry configuration.   In many corporate environments, proxies are
> configured to be discovered by DHCP and friends.  If the user enables
> this extension, Mercurial will also autodetect these settings and
> stuff "just works".
> 
> I've run it on my Windows machines, but I do not use proxies so it
> doesn't do much. I'm hoping some people who do use proxies can test
> this for me and give me some feedback on what works and what doesn't.
> 
> You can either run this as a standalone script, or enable it as an
> extension and try some command line hg commands.

Seems like a good candidate for win32.py?

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