Bugzilla – Bug 5743
Setting default webproxy using environment on Unix, registry on Windows platforms
Last modified: 2008-12-15 13:08:01 UTC
On Unix platform the proxy configuration could done system wide using the following environment variables: - http_proxy - http_proxy_port (optionnal) The proposed patch add a defaultWebProxy handler in the Prefs system to use those variables.
Created attachment 2243 [details] Proposed patch
Not going to be added for the 7.0 release, but we will review it for 7.1
We should read the registry at HKEY_LOCAL_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ProxyEnable et al. on Windows systems. Our solution to detect whether the user needs a proxy server or not is too simplistic and fails more often than it helps (see eg. bug 6120). Chris - I think we should consider this for 7.0
Change 14688 - could you please test whether this is working for you?
It works for me in the following cases with my OpenSUSE 10.3: - http_proxy with "http://" prefix - http_proxy without "http://" prefix - using http_proxy_port - not using http_proxy_port - only removing the webproxy entry in the server.prefs file - starting without any server.prefs Thanks !
Thanks for the feedback!
This bug appears to have been fixed in the latest release! If you are still experiencing this problem, feel free to reopen the bug with your new comments and we'll have another look. Make sure to include the version number of the software you are seeing the error with.