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Re: Proxy settings, system wide or for browser?

 

On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 3:50 PM, Marcus Esser <marcus.esser@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 06/05/15 11:17, Roberto Resoli wrote:
>> Il 05/05/2015 21:37, Marcus Esser ha scritto:
>>> Hello,
>>> is there a way to set system wide or at least browser only network proxy
>>> settings in Ubuntu Touch?
>> Just tried on my bq (r21) and it seems that gconf settings for system
>> wide proxy are supported:
>>
>> gsettings list-recursively org.gnome.system.proxy
>>
>> org.gnome.system.proxy use-same-proxy true
>> org.gnome.system.proxy mode 'none'
>> org.gnome.system.proxy autoconfig-url ''
>> org.gnome.system.proxy ignore-hosts ['localhost', '127.0.0.0/8', '::1']
>> org.gnome.system.proxy.ftp host ''
>> org.gnome.system.proxy.ftp port 0
>> org.gnome.system.proxy.socks host ''
>> org.gnome.system.proxy.socks port 0
>> org.gnome.system.proxy.http host ''
>> org.gnome.system.proxy.http port 8080
>> org.gnome.system.proxy.http use-authentication false
>> org.gnome.system.proxy.http authentication-password ''
>> org.gnome.system.proxy.http authentication-user ''
>> org.gnome.system.proxy.http enabled false
>> org.gnome.system.proxy.https host ''
>> org.gnome.system.proxy.https port 0
>>
>> bye,
>> rob
>>
> thank you, I am able to change the settings on the phone to the values
> that do work properly on my Ubuntu 14.04 systems:
>
> gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy use-same-proxy false
> gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy mode "'manual'"
> gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy ignore-hosts "['localhost',
> '127.0.0.0/8', '192.168.0.0/16', '::1']"
> gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.ftp host "'192.168.112.1'"
> gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.ftp port 800
> gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.socks host "'192.168.112.1'"
> gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.socks port 800
> gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.http host "'192.168.112.1'"
> gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.http port 800
> gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.http use-authentication false
> gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.http enabled true
> gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.https host "'192.168.112.1'"
> gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.https port 800
>
> and the values do persist.
>
> Unfortunately the browser does not seem to use those system proxy
> settings. Also the proxy logs don't show any entry from the phone after
> those setting changes.
>
> Does anybody have an idea how to configure the browser to use the system
> proxy settings?

There’s currently no way to do that. Feel free to file a bug at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/webbrowser-app/+filebug to request addition
of such a feature.


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