Description of Problem: The summary (RDF) channels do not work if the machine is behind a proxy. Instead of seeing the summary, evolution displays an "Error downloading RDF" message. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.0.8-4 How Reproducible: Everytime Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run evolution 2. subscribe to some summary channels 3. go to the summary page Actual Results: Evolution is unable to load the RDF Expected Results: Should see the list of summaries for slashdot, the register (for example). Additional Information: There does not seem to be a place within evolution for specifying the proxy. I have specified a default proxy for gnome to use, but evolution doesn't seem to know it's there.
That's because evolution is a GNOME1 app and so doesn't use the GNOME 2 proxy settings. To set the proxy settings evolution uses (used to be done from nautilus... but nautilus uses gnome2 now) you can do the following (from the Ximian support database) 1. Open a terminal. 2. Enter the command: gconftool-1 --type=bool --set /system/gnome-vfs/use-http-proxy "TRUE" 3. Then, enter the command: gconftool-1 --type=string --set /system/gnome-vfs/http-proxy-host "your-proxy-url" 4. Then, enter the command: gconftool-1 --type=int --set /system/gnome-vfs/http-proxy-port "8080" 5. some other useful options are: gconftool-1 --type=BOOL --set /system/gnome-vfs/http-proxy-authorization "TRUE" gconftool-1 --type=STRING --set /system/gnome-vfs/proxy-authorization-user "USERNAME" gconftool-1 --type=STRING --set /system/gnome-vfs/http-proxy-authorization-password "PASSWORD"