[Sugar-devel] Network proxy, configuration

[Ajay Garg]

On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 12:26 AM, Anish Mangal <anish at sugarlabs.org> wrote:

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> I believe this feature was requested to address the weird proxy
> configurations networks require in AU.
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> We shouldn't normally expect users to have to do anything related to
> network configurations (why would you even require *them* to turn the
> radio off/on?).  This proxy config panel was made part of network-cp
> just so that people can still access network in places information has to
> be
> * either manually entered
> * proxy autoconfig url
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> For any other scenario the user-experience should remain unchanged.
>
> My knowledge of this feature is about a year old, so take this as the
> historical perspective. I have little idea of the current state of the
> feature or its implementation.
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The feature is the same :) , as per
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Proxy_Settings



>
> On Friday 15 March 2013 03:28 AM, Simon Schampijer wrote:
> > For this Feature it would be good to have a look at the exact use case
> that originated this feature
> request. Activity Central worked on it, maybe they can give us details
> about the request from their client to know which exact case we are
> trying to solve.
> >
> > Simon
> >
> > Am 15.03.2013 um 04:29 schrieb Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net>:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Does this mean we will need two signed images, one for the schoolserver
> >> and one for the stand-alone XO? Until now, the default configuration
> has assumed that proxy is provided by the schoolserver.
> >>
> >> Tony
> >>
> >> On 03/14/2013 11:17 PM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net
> >>> <mailto:tony_anderson at usa.net>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> This discussion is making me nervous. The standard model of the XO
> >>> has been that they are connected to the internet via the school server.
> >>> Is it proposed to set up this proxy-server as a requirement for all
> >>> XOs and for the user (primary school children) to have to manage
> >>> this even when no access to the internet is available or even when
> >>> that access is provided by the school server?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> No.
> >>>
> >>> This configuration is only needed in environments where there are not
> >>> school server,
> >>> and is not possible a automatic configuration.
> >>>
> >>> Gonzalo
> >>>
> >>> Tony
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 03/14/2013 04:35 PM, sugar-devel-request at lists.__sugarlabs.org
> >>> <mailto:sugar-devel-request at lists.sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> In other words, I can't imagine every 6-12 year old student in a
> >>> school going into the control panel and typing (without
> >>> error) a load
> >>> of proxy details. In my experience things like this are
> >>> incredibly
> >>> challenging especially because the users cannot relate to
> >>> the task at
> >>> hand (unless you want to teach them about computer networks
> >>> first).
> >>>
> >>>
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> Anish Mangal
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Regards,

Ajay Garg
Dextrose Developer
Activity Central: http://activitycentral.com
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