Re: [announce] gnome-proxy

[Nathaniel McCallum <nathaniel natemccallum com>]

On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 10:10 +0530, Ali Sabil wrote:
> This is just a wonderful addition to GNOME, I hope this will mature
> quickly :) and that
> NetworkManager will stop crying when static IP are used :D
> 
> Concerning the implementation, is there any per proxy password
> support ? because 
> this seems to be lacking in the current GNOME gconf proxy keys.

Not yet.  One reason admins deploy proxies is so that malware can't get
out over port 80 (etc).  Thus, I suspect for proper authentication, each
app will need to check with the keyring, though I am no security expert
in this regard.  Any advice is welcome.

Nathaniel