[Sugar-devel] Fwd: #841 UNSP: SoaS should support using a proxy server

[Peter Robinson]

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 3:04 AM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 02:43:55AM +0000, Peter Robinson wrote:
> > I presume this just sets gconf keys so it might be useful
> > functionality to addto the sugar network control panel so it can be
> > set easier.
>
> Yes, perhaps.  There are many keys.  gnome-network-properties controls
> quite a few.  The one that was changed by my test was
>
> /system/http_proxy/host
>
> Others at the same level include:
>
> authentication_password
> authentication_user
> ignore_hosts
> port
> use_authentication
> use_http_proxy
> use_same_proxy
>
> There's also a collection at /system/proxy, including:
>
> autoconfig_url
> ftp_host
> ftp_port
> mode
> secure_host
> secure_port
> socks_host
> socks_port
>
> Network Proxy Preferences on F11 also provides multiple location
> choices.
>
> I imagine large scale deployments of Sugar would use the gconf keys
> directly rather than expose all this complexity unnecessarily.


Agreed, we can/should also document how to do this for deployements within
the kickstart file.

Peter
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