Re: global proxy settings

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs noisehavoc org>]

On 19Dec2001 05:03PM (-0500), 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:

The current settings are just a boolean setting and a hostname. I
don't think it's a URL.
 
> 	http://user:password proxyhost:port
> 
> ... or should we also add http-proxy-user and http-proxy-password?

The password should not be stored in GConf. The username, maybe, as a
convenience. The user should get promted for the proxy password as
needed (ideally only once per app or once per session). 

> > Does 
> > 	/system/gnome-vfs/
> > 		use-socks-proxy 
> > 		socks-proxy-host 
> > 		socks-proxy-user 
> > 		socks-proxy-password
> > 
> > work for everyone as well?

These sound fine to me (although gnome-vfs does not support them yet).

 > 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.

It's perfectly valid to have a setup where you use an http proxy for
http and a SOCKS proxy for all other ports. 

So I think it should be valid to have both set, and to have the http
proxy take precedence, for http.

 - Maciej