TODO: 1.10 auto-detect proxy

Closes #1572
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Daniel Stenberg 2017-07-05 10:07:27 +02:00
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1.7 Detect when called from within callbacks
1.8 CURLOPT_RESOLVE for any port number
1.9 Cache negative name resolves
1.10 auto-detect proxy
1.11 minimize dependencies with dynamically loaded modules
1.12 have form functions use CURL handle argument
1.14 Typesafe curl_easy_setopt()
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A name resolve that has failed is likely to fail when made again within a
short period of time. Currently we only cache positive responses.
1.10 auto-detect proxy
libcurl could be made to detect the system proxy setup automatically and use
that. On Windows, macOS and Linux desktops for example.
The pull-request to use libproxy for this was deferred due to doubts on the
reliability of the dependency and how to use it:
https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/977
libdetectproxy is a (C++) library for detecting the proxy on Windows
https://github.com/paulharris/libdetectproxy
1.11 minimize dependencies with dynamically loaded modules
We can create a system with loadable modules/plug-ins, where these modules