A sole, standard proxy library for Fedora

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 5/27/06, Aurelien Bompard <gauret at free.fr> wrote:
> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > Can I attest to how little this helps. First of all, this solution is
> > virtually non existant without doing some Googling. Then (at least
> > based on the solution I found) I had to write up a script to export
> > the variables, both in lower case and uppercase, or export them
> > manually.
>
> How about having a file in /etc/profile.d, say proxy.sh and proxy.csh (yeah,
> that's two, well, you get the point) containing this:
> # Set your proxy using the following variables:
> # http_proxy=http://your.proxy.server:8080
> # ftp_proxy=http://your.proxy.server:8080
> # If you need authentication, use:
> # http_proxy=http://username:password@your.proxy.server:8080
>
> At least that would save the Googling (and it's easy to do).
>
> Then, we could make a system-config-proxy which would set this file, and set
> the proxy in GNOME, KDE and firefox while it's at it.
> Or we could fix the GNOME setting app and Kcontrol to setup environment
> variables in /etc/profile.d/proxy.{sh,csh}. I'm not sure upstream would
> accept setting the proxy in Firefox too though, so we might need a
> system-config-proxy in the end.
>
> Yes, this is suboptimal compared to using a single libproxy.so to rule them
> all, but will big cross-platform apps like firefox support it ?
>
>
> Aurélien
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>

I have tried the above approach manually. It works better on paper
than in practice. Especially considering the numerous other
applications that require similiar configurations. But that is one
solution.

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