<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 4:56 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan <<a href="mailto:sridhar@laptop.org.au" target="_blank">sridhar@laptop.org.au</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div class="im">On 22 November 2012 17:35, Ajay Garg <<a href="mailto:ajay@activitycentral.com">ajay@activitycentral.com</a>> wrote: > > [Only replying to dextrose-list, so that OLPC and Sugar upstream guys may provide an independent feedback] > > On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan <<a href="mailto:sridhar@laptop.org.au">sridhar@laptop.org.au</a>> wrote: >> </div><div class="im">>> 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. >> >> 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. > > > You mean both "Manual" and "Automatic" modes are working at once? As far as I know, that's impossible. > > I am sure I am not understanding this correctly :-\ </div>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. </blockquote><div> Hmm.. That means it is a UI-inconsistency; UI should reflect the fact that BOTH "manual"- and "automatic"- proxy configurations are at work. May be condense the "Manual" and "Automatic" modes into one, leaving it to the user to ensure that he fills up the settings in a compatible and complete manner, all at one go? If yes, * This would be a UI-consistency-improvement, even over the way Gnome does it. * This is perfectly doable :-) * Would add to the TODO-list for March (in a doable manner). </div></div> Regards, Ajay Garg Dextrose Developer Activity Central: <a href="http://activitycentral.com/" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" target="_blank">http://activitycentral.com</a>