On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 20:02, Jorn Baayen wrote: > Hi, > > The current proxy capplet is rather incomplete, since it only does HTTP > proxy. It would be good if it could be extended to handle FTP and SSL > proxies, socks host, and autoconfiguration URL as well. We need those to > support proxying in Galeon properly, and gnome-vfs/nautilus should > surely use them as well. I'm willing to do the code, and have already > made some UI mockups: > > http://nl.linux.org/~jorn/Files/capplet.png > http://nl.linux.org/~jorn/Files/details.png > > There are some problems though: > - User/password. These may be different for each server, so we can't > have a global u/p setting. 99% of the proxy users prolly have these the > same though, but I think that for system configuration we'd better > support everything. In my mockups I have moved this to a details dialog, > since we can't really fit two entries extra per server into the dialog. > - GConf keys. Right now, the proxy prefs reside in > /system/http_proxy/host etc. Where do we keep the new keys? > /system/ftp_proxy/host? That would bloat the /system dir too much IMHO. > On the other hand, /system/http_proxy/ftp_host would be sucky too. I > think the best would be to have something like /system/proxy/http/host, > /system/proxy/ftp/host, etc, but this would break backward > compatibility. > > It would be really cool if this could be done before the 2.2 UI freeze, > so that we can remove the proxy prefs from Galeon. > > Comments? Suggestions? IMO, "SSL Proxy" is a bad name for https. "Secure HTTP" would make more sense, you could then put the https proxy settings under /system/http_proxy and that would only add /system/socks_proxy to /system, not so bad. Cheers -- /Bastien Nocera http://hadess.net Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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