Re: gnome-vfs & HTTP proxy settings

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 19:59 +0000, John Spray wrote:
> When using gnome-vfs on http:// URIs, I understand that it transparently
> uses the proxy settings in the gconf database.  Independent of these
> settings, is it possible to configure gnome-vfs to use a proxy at
> runtime?
> 
> The motivation is to allow my application to let the user set a proxy
> even if they are not in a Gnome environment (and thus don't have the
> gconf settings daemon running).  Would I be better off with libcurl for
> this kind of flexibility?

gconfd should autostart. Isn't it?

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