[Dextrose] Harmonising network proxy settings

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On 22 November 2012 17:35, Ajay Garg <ajay at activitycentral.com> wrote:
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> [Only replying to dextrose-list, so that OLPC and Sugar upstream guys may provide an independent feedback]
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> On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan <sridhar at laptop.org.au> wrote:
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>> We've modified this behaviour in our builds to write the Manual
>> proxy setting to the http_proxy environment variable so that software
>> like yum (which we rely upon for OS updates), Software Update and Get
>> Books can function.
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>> In our schools it is common to require proxy authentication to get
>> online, often with a PAC/WPAD file that prompts the user for
>> credentials when they try and access a Web page. In these schools,
>> they must specify the proxy twice - the Manual one first and then the
>> Automatic.
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> You mean both "Manual" and "Automatic" modes are working at once? As far as I know, that's impossible.
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> I am sure I am not understanding this correctly :-\

The Manual setting is also written to the the http_proxy environment
variable. That fixes connectivity for the OS and most activities. If
you set an Automatic proxy after that, that setting gets priority for
Browse (and anything else that looks at gconf/dconf). This is
important because the PAC/WPAD file includes a prompt for
authentication that allows greater access on the Web.