[OLPC-AU] Browse activity, XO 1.5 and an authenticating proxy server

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On 18 October 2010 16:53, Sridhar Dhanapalan <sridhar at laptop.org.au> wrote:
> I noticed a change between Browse in os201 and os202. In os201, you
> could fully edit about:config, and this was the way to enter proxy
> settings. From os202, about:config is read-only, and proxy settings
> are derived from gconf (used by GNOME).
>
> If you include the correct proxy authentication details in
> gnome-network-properties (you can run this from the terminal; you
> don't need to switch to GNOME), can you view sites through the proxy?
> What happens if you make them blank/incorrect?

I think I may have already sent this to the list, but try these commands

Basic setup:
$ gconftool-2 --set --type=bool /system/http_proxy/use_http_proxy 1
$ gconftool-2 --set --type=string /system/http_proxy/host <server>
$ gconftool-2 --set --type=int /system/http_proxy/port <port>
$ gconftool-2 --set --type=bool /system/http_proxy/use_same_proxy 1

Exclusions list:
$ gconftool-2 --set --type=list --list-type=string
/system/http_proxy/ignore_hosts [localhost,127.0.0.0/8,schoolserver]

Proxy authentication:
$ gconftool-2 --set --type=bool /system/http_proxy/use_authentication 1
$ gconftool-2 --set --type=string
/system/http_proxy/authentication_user <username>
$ gconftool-2 --set --type=string
/system/http_proxy/authentication_password <password>