Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 10:07:49 +0200
From: Gert Doering <gert@...1296...>
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Subject: Re: [Openvpn-devel] [[PATCH v3]] Remove http-proxy-timeout,
 socks timeout and set default of server-poll-timeout to 120s
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To: Arne Schwabe <arne@...1227...>
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Hi,

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 11:33:39AM +0200, Arne Schwabe wrote:
> >     I do wonder how useful these settings are, and why they are not
> >     default...
> >     they predate my OpenVPN involvement by many years.
> >
> > No clue..
> I would just propose to remove the option (but accept configs with it in
> it). Connecting logic with dualstack and new timeouts has changed enough
> that this corner case behaviour isn't probably worth keeping. The option
> probably predates even the connection list.

I think that is a reasonable way forward out of the option jungle -=20
make --http-proxy-retry and --socks-proxy-retry NOOP-with-warning, and
change the behaviour to "always SIGUSR1".  That way, all connection errors
either "direct" or "via any sort of proxy" will (should?) lead to the same=
=20
restart behaviour, no special options to remember.

gert

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