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Re: http_proxy with firefox?



Le jeudi 17 août 2006 16:25, Florian Kulzer a écrit :
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 14:49:37 +0200, Christof Hurschler wrote:
> > Von: "Mirco Piccin" <pictux@gmail.com>
> >
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > }} does anyone know if firefox can use the http_proxy einviornment
> > > variable?
> > >
> > > I don't know, sincerely, but i can tell you that i use the:
> > > SwitchProxy Tool that is an extension for firefox that allow to
> > > change dinamically (without close & reopen firefox) proxy set.  Hope
> > > it helps you!  Bye
> >
> > I also use switch-proxy, which *is* nice.  I have my laptop setup to
> > automatically set the environment variable depending on where I am.
> > KDE does a nice job and allows one to use the environment variables.
> > I haven't figured out how to do it wich Firefox though...
>
> If all else fails then you could tell firefox to use a pac file for
> proxy configuration. You can use a simple script to change this file (or
> redirect a symlink) depending on which network is detected.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_auto-config

You can also use a proxy, local to your machine, lightweight : tinyproxy.
You can add a parent proxy to it's config (upstream server:port) with  a 
script launched at network start.

Configure all your browsers, environment variables and tools to use your local 
proxy.

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