On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 17:55, Colin Walters wrote: > On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 15:39 +0200, Nils Philippsen wrote: > > > That sounds good but I'm talking about when the DHCP server doesn't > > provide this information. Are when it's inaccurate, e.g. you're at a > > customer's site where people login with their Windows accounts to the > > proxy which is what DHCP propagates. All external people are expected to > > use another proxy. > > At least here at the Westford office we have a separate area (network) > for external people, so if we had a http proxy that could be given by > the dhcp server for that separate network. > > What we really need to solve is better error fallbacks in the web > browser (Epiphany). Instead of popping up a dialog, it should do what > IE does and display an error page. The error page would have links to > the proxy configuration, etc (I think IE does this too). In the proxy > configuration dialog, there could be a checkbox for "Use this proxy for > this network session" or something like that. NetworkManager would then > know to reset the proxy GConf key after the network changes. ...and with VPN the network session can change underneath the browser. Would be awfully nice if the browser (and certainly not talking about Epiphany only here) could be told "switch to this profile" or even just "reread your proxy configuration" by some means. - Panu -
