F9: system wide proxy settings at install

[Simon Andrews]

Ian Thurlbeck wrote:
> 
> For FC9, how about setting a proxy early in the installer and using this
> for all web-using applications ?

As someone else who sits behind a compulsory proxy I'd second any 
request to improve proxy support in Fedora and would be happy to help 
out to make this happen.

However, the problem could end up being quite complex.  Lots of programs 
  (eg firefox) have their own proxy settings and sorting all of these 
out won't be trivial.

The other problem is that a proxy isn't forever!  If I take my laptop 
and stick it on a wireless network I don't want it trying to contact my 
work's proxy server.

A previous suggestion (ages ago and not by me) was to set up a local 
proxy on the machine and make all applications use that.  You'd then use 
Network Manager to manipulate the local proxy to pass through the 
appropriate proxy for whichever connection you were currently using. 
Isn't this similar to what is currently done for DNS services through 
Network Manager?  It does smell a bit like a kludge though...

Simon.