WinHTTP and the V8ProxyResolver

[usaini]

I was just looking through the browser_request_context, and noticed that instead of using WinHTTP under the autodetect settings,CEF was not really using a ProxyResolver.

Is there a reason, CEF doesn't use the V8ProxyResolver? It looks like to me in the Chromium code, WinHTTP isn't really used at all anymore, and it used the V8ProxyResolver by default (unless that is overridden by the user).

There is also an issue with WinHTTP in how it handles PAC files with bad/incorrect MIME types. It will just barf/fail on the PAC file if the http proxy site doesn't end in .pac or .js and the MIME type is incorrect. In the ProxyFetcherImpl, it seemed to just log that it was incorrect, but still use the PAC file anyway to try and mimic IE and firefox.

I was just wondering if it is safe to change CEF to always just use the V8ProxyResolver, and that should be system independent as well.

Thanks,
Udam

[magreenblatt]

http://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org ... d13445ddb2

See the comment by Eric Roman.