On Friday 09 February 2007 19:20, Patrick Winnertz wrote: > Am Freitag, den 09.02.2007, 18:59 +0100 schrieb cobaco (aka Bart > > On Friday 09 February 2007 13:16, Patrick Winnertz wrote: > > > Hey, > > > > > > at the moment we ship our kde with preconfigured proxy for konqueror, > > > and if someone uses firefox he has to manually configure the proxy > > > for it. (profile ltspserver). > > > What do you think of an automatic configuration for browsers. It is > > > possible to ship such informations with dns or dhcp, to make the > > > browser run an script where the proxy informations are stored in. > > > > kde is preconfigured to use the contents of http_proxy and ftp_proxy > > environment variables ar proxy. > > > > > I think it would be a great idea to ship such an configuration tool > > > with skolelinux, this would solve in my eyes some issues: > > > > The addon at [1] makes firefox follow those variables as well > > > > [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3896/ > > okay, but this have to be installed by _every_ user.. not that good > solution. there's several packages for firefox extensions already, so there's no reason why a package can't be made of this one > I think it will do no harm if we use this automatic configuration > script. > Browsers which use the env vars, will use them, browsers which doesn't > know about them will look for this script. everything will work out of > the box ;-) and i think this is what we want. is it? that gives 2 places you need to change/set the proxy, not that big a deal I suppose but still suboptimal, and if we go this route this needs to be well documented -- Cheers cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
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