So, basically, the System Settings-Network-Network Proxy option, when
set to Automatic Proxy, does nothing at all (Ubuntu 13.10 here)?
I've confirmed that, when setting it to my proxy.pac URL, it doesn't
even attempt to fetch it (that is, nothing appears on the web server
logs), unlike, say,
What value should be written in the automatic mode case?
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1084851
Title:
No system-wide proxy for automatic proxy
Of that I'm not really certain. I filed this report because as a user
the behaviour surprised me that some things would be able to access the
network and others wouldn't.
Having dug into the problem a little it's apparent that it's not trivial
to solve - that doesn't mean that it's not worth
This is a problem with gnome-control-center/ubuntu-system-services. The
static proxy setting are written to /etc/environment and
/etc/apt/apt.conf but this is not done for the automatic proxy settings.
** Summary changed:
- Software centre fails to install software on system with system-wide
Quite right, I see there's no case for G_DESKTOP_PROXY_MODE_AUTO in
on_proxy_apply_system_wide() of 50_ubuntu_systemwide_prefs.patch in
gnome-control-center.
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