Re: The use of /system/http_proxy/ignore_hosts

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 13:33, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> 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? 

Well. I guess that depends. If you want to use the same http proxy as
the system, and is not using a library such as gnome-vfs that
automatically uses it, you should probably use it.

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