Re: global proxy settings

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On 19 Dec 2001, Joe Shaw wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 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?
> 

Uhhh... so what if I don't want to store the password?

> > Does 
> > 	/system/gnome-vfs/
> > 		use-socks-proxy 
> > 		socks-proxy-host 
> > 		socks-proxy-user 
> > 		socks-proxy-password
> > 
> > work for everyone as well?
> 
> Which takes precedence, a SOCKS proxy or an HTTP proxy?  I think it
> would be better to have a "use-proxy" flag, and just use a URL, with
> "http", "socks4" or "socks5" as the protocol.
> 

So what if i have to access the http proxy over socks?

> Joe
> 

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