Re: The use of /system/http_proxy/ignore_hosts

[Mikael Hallendal <micke imendio com>]

On tis, 2004-08-31 at 08:43 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 00:14, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > So in GConf there is a /system/http_proxy/ignore_hosts key that is a
> > list of hosts that shouldn't use the defined HTTP proxy. This key
> > doesn't seem to exposed in the UI anywhere but from the description on
> > the key it seems it consists of a list of strings in pretty much any
> > notation of specifying a host/network.
> > 
> > Is this intended to be used by application developers? If so we need an
> > easy way to lookup a given host name to see if it matches against any of
> > the strings in the ignore_hosts list.
> > 
> > I think it would require too much code for each application to
> > implement/copy-paste code into each networked application.
> > 
> > Has anyone thought of how this should be handled?
> 
> Well, it is currently handled by gnome-vfs http backends, and as such
> many things automatically use it.

Ok, so /system/http_proxy/* should not be used from other applications? 

Best Regards,
  Mikael Hallendal

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