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/ > - Browsers (like Opera) which are not yet automatically configured by > our installation would then be configured by this setup. I'm not sure about opera but most unix-browsers and tools (wget, links, lynx, ..) will check the http_proxy variable. -- cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
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