A solution to the Galeon situation?

George J Karabin gkarabin at pobox.com
Sat Aug 23 17:19:01 UTC 2003


Ouch - something like this is well beyond the scope of the problem that
I'm trying to solve.

I can't think of any existing browsers or programs that I've used
(mozilla, IE) that provide a per-session choice of proxy configuration.
Am I off base there?

As to workarounds, if you administer your own machine, or can otherwise
get extra research accounts assigned, you might consider using a user
account per proxy configuration that you want to use. There's no reason
you can't run epiphany from a terminal logged into the other account
while using your main terminal.

It would be interesting if a user could create "sandbox" GConf profiles,
and instruct particular apps to use a secondary gconfd dameon associated
with that profile. That could be useful for developers testing the use
of GConf in their apps, but I have no idea if that's possible with
GConf, or likely to be well supported if it is.

Regards,

- George

On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 09:59, Joel Young wrote:
> --------
> > From: George J Karabin <gkarabin at pobox.com>
> > 
> > On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 07:51, Joel Young wrote:
> > > Sometimes I need to run with two different browsers so I can have one
> > > without a proxy and the other with one.
> > 
> > Can you describe a scenario when you'd like to do this? Is it that you
> > want to only use the proxy for certain host names or netmasks? 
> 
> I have a couple of different web proxies I use.  One of them provides a
> snapshot of the web from 1997 I use for web spidering research.  I like
> to be able to point my browser at that proxy for periods of time to be
> able to navigate thru that snapshot.  I have another proxy which saves
> any images I encounter.  I don't want to use that all the time either.
> One of the machines has a caching and anonomizing proxy which I might
> like to use sometimes.  
> 
> I want to be able to navigate my snapshot at the same time as checking
> my ebay auctions for example, without having to run multiple browsers. 
> 
> Joel





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