Ticket #35 (closed Enhancement: fixed)

Opened 3 years ago

Last modified 3 months ago

Automatic proxy configuration desired

Reported by: KSMarksPsych Assigned to: romw
Priority: Minor Milestone: Undetermined
Component: Manager Version:
Keywords: proxy Cc:

Description

Posted by: Date: 4:00 PM 08-18-2005 For users who have to switch between networks with different proxies (or without proxies) an automatic proxy configuration would be nice.

It could work exactly like the automatic proxy configuration of web browsers like e.g. Firefox.

Of course two different scripts for both HTTP- and SOCKS-Proxy should be possible.

Posted by: Date: 3:29 AM 11-26-2005 For Windows systems, this can be lifted directly from the registry. IE stores the proxy settings in HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionInternet Settings in some values whose names start with "Proxy".

Posted by: Date: 3:32 AM 11-26-2005 My bad, Bugzilla strips backslashes. Unixifying the registry key, it's "HKCU/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Internet Settings"

Posted by: Date: 3:50 PM 01-03-2006 "For Windows systems, this can be lifted directly from the registry." This is valid only for IE and should therefore not be used! It would be a bad solution, anyway, to use other programs settings without asking the user.

Change History

(in reply to: ↑ description ) 05/10/07 01:19:21 changed by stanislav_cimpa@mzv.cz

Replying to KSMarksPsych:

Posted by: Date: 4:00 PM 08-18-2005 For users who have to switch between networks with different proxies (or without proxies) an automatic proxy configuration would be nice. It could work exactly like the automatic proxy configuration of web browsers like e.g. Firefox. Of course two different scripts for both HTTP- and SOCKS-Proxy should be possible. Posted by: Date: 3:29 AM 11-26-2005 For Windows systems, this can be lifted directly from the registry. IE stores the proxy settings in HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionInternet Settings in some values whose names start with "Proxy". Posted by: Date: 3:32 AM 11-26-2005 My bad, Bugzilla strips backslashes. Unixifying the registry key, it's "HKCU/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Internet Settings" Posted by: Date: 3:50 PM 01-03-2006 "For Windows systems, this can be lifted directly from the registry." This is valid only for IE and should therefore not be used! It would be a bad solution, anyway, to use other programs settings without asking the user.

07/27/07 09:12:12 changed by FluffyChicken

Just add the option, use 'Internet Explorer settings' or such like most programs do. Would have saved me loads off hassle when I used proxies (especially with a script base setting)

Actually since IE is in the Windows OS, it's actually the Internet Options settings (in the Control Panel). At lot of windows programs like WLM/MSN's, Help, IE, office, error reporting... etc need to have this set for them to work properly nowadays

05/20/08 13:37:06 changed by Simek

  • keywords set to proxy.

07/29/09 16:50:01 changed by romw

  • status changed from new to closed.
  • resolution set to fixed.

(In [18772]) - client: Initial swipe at automatic proxy server configuration

detection on Windows. Fixes #35

client/

cs_cmdline.cpp http_curl.cpp http_curl.h

lib/

boinc_win.h proxy_info.cpp proxy_info.h util.cpp win_util.h

07/29/09 17:04:08 changed by romw

(In [18773]) - client: Initial swipe at automatic proxy server configuration

detection on Windows. Fixes #35

client/

cs_cmdline.cpp http_curl.cpp http_curl.h

lib/

boinc_win.h proxy_info.cpp proxy_info.h util.cpp win_util.h

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