Arthur Pemberton wrote: >On 5/26/06, David Hollis <dhollis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. > > Maybe we can get it onto the SOC dance card? -Philip -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
