Uniform Proxy Settings
Kulbir Saini
kulbirsaini at students.iiit.ac.in
Fri Oct 3 10:45:44 UTC 2008
Tim Lauridsen wrote:
> Kulbir Saini wrote:
>> Hi list,
>>
>> Whenever I try a new version of Fedora, the first problem I face is
>> setting the proxy. It seems for almost every application, I have to
>> specify proxy at a different place. We have this "System ->
>> Preferences -> Internet and Network -> Network Proxy" app to specify
>> proxy settings. But I wonder if there is some application which obeys
>> these settings.
>>
>> Examples:
>>
>> 1. Yum (3.2.19-3.fc10) won't fetch proxy settings from above specified
>> location. It has to be set via proxy option in yum.conf or
>> http_proxy/ftp_proxy env variable.
> The problem is that the above is Gnome thing, so it make sense for gnome
> apps to use it, but yum a low level app there should work on all
> systems, also sytems with no GUI.
My objective was not to blame Yum or revisor or whatever else. I was
blaming the proxy setting system we have.
> Tim
>
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Thank you,
Kulbir Saini,
Computer Science and Engineering,
International Institute of Information Technology,
Hyderbad, India - 500032.
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