GLib 2.26, coming on September 10th, will finally gain proxy support. This contribution to GLib was made possible by Collabora Ltd. and reviewing efforts by Dan Winship. After three months of head scratching and rewriting, we finally came-up with a solution that blends into the GIO architecture and requires no code change for users of the [...]
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Toward an improved GLib network stack
Posted: 14th June 2010 by Nicolas in PlanetTags: glib, proxy, telepathy, tls
I recently started looking into GLib TLS implementation written by Dan Winship. As a reflex, I tried to merge it into my proxy branch. Things did not go so well, not because the branches are wrong, but because they both need similar features inside GIO. This is a good lesson for me, I should have [...]
Transparent proxy for GLib applications
Posted: 4th June 2010 by Nicolas in PlanetTags: glib, proxy
The biggest problem with socket based proxies are their simplicity. It’s a bigger pain to write them once for all applications than to implement them for a single application. But that is if you don’t consider system wide and automatic configuration. So far, the result on Linux is that most desktop environments have global settings. [...]
With Meego for Notebooks 1.0 users of Google and MSN can now monitor and open their online e-mails account with a single mouse click in the MyZone panel. Thanks to Intel for hiring Collabora to implement this feature. The GUI shows the number of unread messages for each of your accounts in real-time. Clicking the [...]