<div class="gmail_quote">On 26 January 2012 12:01, Simon Schampijer <<a href="mailto:simon@schampijer.de">simon@schampijer.de</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On 01/24/2012 10:31 PM, Sascha Silbe wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> From: Jerry Vonau<<a href="mailto:jvonau@shaw.ca" target="_blank">jvonau@shaw.ca</a>> Some applications and tools and even some parts of Sugar will use the http_proxy environment variable if set, but don't use the Gnome (GConf) proxy settings. After changing the GConf proxy settings, Sugar needs to be restarted for the http_proxy environment variable to be updated. [factored out into separate function; some clean-ups; added description] Signed-off-by: Sascha Silbe<<a href="mailto:silbe@activitycentral.com" target="_blank">silbe@activitycentral.com</a>> --- bin/sugar-session | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/bin/sugar-session b/bin/sugar-session index ee0048d..7eaa8f1 100755 --- a/bin/sugar-session +++ b/bin/sugar-session @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ # Copyright (C) 2006, Red Hat, Inc. # Copyright (C) 2009, One Laptop Per Child Association Inc # Copyright (C) 2010, Plan Ceibal<<a href="mailto:comunidad@plan.ceibal.edu.uy" target="_blank">comunidad@plan.ceibal.edu.uy</a>> +# Copyright (C) 2011, OLPC-AU. # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by @@ -211,6 +212,30 @@ def setup_accessibility_cb(): accessibility_manager = accessibility.AccessibilityManager() accessibility_manager.setup_accessibility() + +def export_proxy_settings(): + """Export manual proxy settings from GConf as environment variables + + Some applications and tools and even some parts of Sugar will use + the http_proxy environment variable if set, but don't use the Gnome + (GConf) proxy settings. </blockquote> </div></div> Hi, can you give a few examples which ones are using which method? My fist hit was wget using the env variable [1]. More light on that welcome. Regards, Simon [1] <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/html_node/Proxies.html" target="_blank">http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/html_node/Proxies.html</a> </blockquote></div> Think this fixes the proxy issue for all python based programs. This patch allows OLPC's sugar-update-control to work from behind proxies, which we have working in the field with this patch. Jerry