Rodrigo Moya wrote:
I think there's a conversation[1] underway[2] about inclusion of libproxy[3] as a dependency for 2.26 -- and I agree that it's a worthy goal (although I don't know what would make it a Goal, if you see what I mean).On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 15:58 +0100, Lionel Dricot wrote:Hello, At work, I'm stuck behind a proxy with a password. I then discovered that a lot of application are not capable of handling a connection with a proxy. Others require a specific configuration while the proxy configuration is already available by Gnome. Last but not least, some applications use the Gnome proxy preferences but forget to handle proxy exceptions or handle proxy correctly only if no password is required. The idea of my Gnome Goal proposal would be to have perfect and consistent proxy support in the whole Gnome desktop, which is a great asset in the corporate world. Do you believe it worth a Gnome Goal ? Or do you think that individual bug reports are enough for that. ?is indeed a very nice goal, but if every app using the network needs to do all this, the situation is going to continue as it is today :-) So it would be great if there was an API for every app to use, which would just use/not use the proxy settings and authenticate if needed, all done "automagically" behind the scenes [1] http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointTwentyfive/ExternalDependencies [2] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2008-October/msg00040.html [3] http://code.google.com/p/libproxy/ |
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