Re: Bug#525481: Wrong usage of gnome proxy settings
Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> writes:
> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 09:56:54AM +0200, Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
>> Il giorno ven, 24/04/2009 alle 22.30 +0200, Mike Hommey ha scritto:
>> [...]
>> > I'm not sure iceweasel uses gnome settings, but uses what gnome exports
>> > in the *_proxy environment variable. Can you check what they look like?
>>
>> giuseppe@scarafaggio:~/src/django/mberi$ env | grep prox
>> http_proxy=http://192.168.1.53:3128/
>> no_proxy=localhost,127.0.0.0/8,192.168.0.0/16,scarafaggio
>
> I'm pretty sure iceweasel doesn't support the CIDR notation (e.g.
> 127.0.0.0/8).
>
> I'm not sure if this has to be considered a bug in gnome or a lack of
> feature in iceweasel... I'm not even sure other stuff like this
> format either (like lynx, links, python's urllib, etc.)
>
> Fellow developpers, what do you think?
The usage of no_proxy is documented on
http://www.w3.org/Daemon/User/Proxies/ProxyClients.html
"the contents is a comma-separated list of domain names, with an
optional :port part"
Any further extensions to this scheme cannot be guaranteed to work.
Bjørn
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