Description of problem: In Desktop > Preferences, I have something called "Network Proxy" (that is actually gnome-network-preferences). If I configure my proxy here, as a newbie I'd expect it to be configured system-wide for all the applications that requires it - especially yum and firefox. There is currently not even an indication/feedback of the limited scope of this proxy configuration... And not only should the Network Proxy be able to configure http proxy, but it should also be able to configure SOCKS proxy. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Default workstation install 2. Launch Network Proxy 3. Configure proxy correctly Actual results: Notice that it doesn't seem to modify the most important apps. Expected results: All the apps made aware and properly configured for the proxies. Additional info: In most corporate environments, proxies are a fact of life...
Ray, didn't we fix this in FC6 by exporting HTTP_PROXY in gnome-session ?
Sort of, it doesn't address socks proxies, or automatic proxy configuration, and as I just found out a few minutes ago, the patch is broken for proxies that require authentication: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84315#c10 Also, as pointed out in the same comment, it has security ramifications, so I'm going to turn off the http_proxy setting in the case that the proxy requires authentication.
This report targets the FC3 or FC4 products, which have now been EOL'd. Could you please check that it still applies to a current Fedora release, and either update the target product or close it ? Thanks.
Fedora Core 3 and Fedora Core 4 are no longer supported. If you could retest this issue on a current release or on the latest development / test version, we would appreciate that. Otherwise, this bug will be marked as CANTFIX one month from now. Thanks for your help and for your patience.
This is definitely not solved IMO (even in fc7 test 4). For example, if I input a proxy in Network Proxy, the change is not reflected in Firefox. The requirement would be to have the obvious place to configure the proxy system-wide actually apply changes system wide.
Fedora 8: 1) Fedora Developer Spin i686 with latest updates 2) System > Preferences > Internet and Network > Network Proxy 3) configure a proxy from: http://www.publicproxyservers.com 4) Go to a page using Firefox 5) lsof -i tcp shows that we are still connecting directly to the site There is no gnome-network-preferences component?
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