Re: global proxy settings

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 05:16:37PM -0500, Alex Graveley wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 2001-12-19 at 17:03, Joe Shaw wrote:
> > On Wed, 2001-12-19 at 16:26, Alex Graveley wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2001-12-19 at 15:19, Glynn Foster wrote:
> > > > Currently /system/gnome-vfs/[use-http-proxy, http-proxy-host] is being
> > > > used so it's probably a good idea to stick with that.
> > 
> > Is this a URL?  For authenticated proxies, is it correct to say:
> > 
> > 	http://user:password proxyhost:port
> > 
> > ... or should we also add http-proxy-user and http-proxy-password?
> 
> I think having user/password split out would make life easier for
> applications as these usually map to separate widgets.  *shrug*

  Actually the user:password form is deprecated in RFC 2396 the password
part is not supposed to be there. Of course this is nonetheless still used
but it should not.

Daniel

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