A sole, standard proxy library for Fedora

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 5/26/06, David Hollis <dhollis at davehollis.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 11:11 -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote:
> > I have a laptop that travels with me from work (where there's the
> > use of web proxies) to home (where I don't), and was overwhelmed
> > by the number of config files that I have to switch over every time
> > I move from one place to the other.
>
> Most CLI apps will honor http_proxy/ftp_proxy environment variables for
> proxying.  GUI apps may or may not support that, I can't say that I've
> tried.  Gnome (and I'm sure KDE) have their own control panel setting
> for that, but that only applies to apps that make use of their VFS
> library.  If they do their own web access, they may not honor it.
>

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. And I did all this so I could use Yum. For firefox to work,
I had to set its config. I tried setting up a proxy pac to work
automatically based on the network I was on, but that did not work
out. Luckily, KDE has Control Center to allow setting of proxy
information. Machine wide setting of proxy information, esp. based on
active network would be great...not even Windows has this to the best
of my knowledge.

Unfortunately, I have niether the time, nor the know how to implement
this myself.



-- 
To be updated...