Here's something I filed in Bugzilla back in June. Fixing this issue
would make life easier for enterprise users, but it's not clear what
exactly the solution would be. Should the proxy control be integrated
into system-config-network, Sabayon, or somewhere else?
---https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=197371----------------------------------------
Description of problem:
Imagine the scenario of a multi-computer office network, and each
computer has multiple users. The office firewall does not allow direct
port 80 access, so all web traffic must go through the web proxy.
Setting the proxy for each application for each user on each computer
can be tiring.
Competition:
In SUSE 10.1, Yast can configure a system wide proxy which affects (at
least) Firefox, Gnome, KDE, and environment variables. Programs such as
wget, links, and yum (on Fedora) obey the environment variables. In SUSE
10.1, OpenOffice.org's proxy setting is not affected (but it would be
nice if it were).
In Microsoft Windows, most applications obey the system proxy settings
(Control Panel->Internet Options->Connections).
---https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=197371----------------------------------------
Recently, I thought about two other nuances. First, when yum runs as a
service, (by default) it doesn't load environment variables from
/etc/profile.d/*sh, which is a convenient place to setup proxy
environment variables. Second, non-GUI Linux programs (unlike GUI web
browsers, for example) support neither proxy auto-detection nor
automatic configuration URLs.
Andrew
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