Re: avoid to select between different proxies

[Blackhold <blackholdmailer gmail com>]

2012/8/17 Blackhold <blackholdmailer gmail com>:
> 2012/8/16 Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas dufresne collabora co uk>:
>> Le vendredi 10 août 2012 à 19:46 +0200, Blackhold a écrit :
>>> Hi,
>>> I'm using gnome2 and tested gnome3, but I miss a very important thing.
>>>
>>> in gnome 2 you could have a list of proxies, but in gnome 3 you can't
>>
>> That is unclear to me how you could have that in gnome2. Gnome 3 should
>> behave the same as Gnome 2 in term of proxy logic. There might be a bug
>> in the new proxy code now in glib-networking library. Would be nice to
>> provide with full scenario.
>
> gnome3: http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/3213/captura1f.png
>
> gnome2: http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/6002/captura2zg.png
>
> in gnome2 I have a list of proxys I usually use. The project I'm on,
> is guifi.net, we have proxys all over the territory for users could
> access for free to these internet connections, in my case I've got
> proxys of different places configured.
>
> I think that most users that uses regularly proxies usually use various proxies.
>
> Proxy.pac solution is not ok, we could not have announcing proxies all
> over the network, usually dummy routers could not configure proxy in
> dns, and in most cases proxy.pac don't works automatically.

sorry, in DHCP.

>
>>
>>> only select 1. This is useful if you are working between different
>>> proxies, in the new way I have to have a text document saved anywhere
>>> with the common proxies I use.
>>
>> For more complex proxy settings, I usually recommend using an JavaScript
>> PAC file**. In your gnome setting, choose automatic, set an URI like
>> file:///home/me/my.pac . With a PAC file you can do a lot more, like
>> choosing proxies base on domain, or current subnet, etc.
>>
>> ** See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_auto-config.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Nicolas
>>
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