no proxy support in gmail-notify

[Carthik Sharma]

This bug was originally reported using reportbug. Filing by proxy.
The original bug report follows:
From: Carlos Laviola <email address hidden>
To: Ubuntu Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: no proxy support
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:35:33 -0300
X-Mailer: reportbug 3.18ubuntu1

Package: gmail-notify
Version: 1.6.1-0ubuntu2
Severity: important

This package does not offer any proxy support, which makes it impossible
for someone behind a firewall who blocks direct web traffic to use it.
A possible suggestion would be for gmail-notify to inherit GNOME's proxy
settings.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers dapper-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'dapper-updates'), (500, 'dapper-security'), (500, 'dapper')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-27-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages gmail-notify depends on:
ii python 2.4.2-0ubuntu3 An interactive high-level object-o
ii python2.4-gnome2-extras 2.14.0-0ubuntu3 Python bindings for the GNOME desk
ii python2.4-gtk2 2.8.6-0ubuntu1 Python bindings for the GTK+ widge

gmail-notify recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

[Luca Falavigna (dktrkranz)]

Thank you for your bug report.
Attached debdiff should implement this.
It will be fixed during next upload.

[Andrea Veri (av)]

gmail-notify (1.6.1-3ubuntu1) gutsy; urgency=low

   * Added 05_proxy_support.patch (thanks Luca Falavigna) (LP: #66276)
   * Added 06_preferences-window.patch. Preferences window will now
     open up once. (LP: #62081)
   * Maintainer set to MOTU developers

 -- Andrea Veri <email address hidden> Fri, 8 Jun 2007 23:33:09 +0200

[Anton Mellit (mellit)]

Sorry, did anyone check this? The fix didn't work in my case (version 1.6.1 under Ubuntu Gutsy). And it could not work since urllib2 does not support ssl via proxy (http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/456195). I corrected it in my case (http://mellit.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/gmail-notify-for-linux-with-proxy/)

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 alpha?

[Witold Krakowski (wkrakowski-gmail)]

I checked gmail-notify and it works correctly with my company proxy on Kubuntu 8.04.1
Package version: 1.6.1-3ubuntu2.1

[Artur Rona (ari-tczew)]

 gmail-notify (1.6.1.1-0.1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Non-maintainer upload.
   * New upstream release 1.6.1.1, (Closes: #457748)
   * Depend on python-eggtrayicon instead of python-gnome2-extras (Closes: #485318)
   * Changed gmail.google.com to mail.google.com (Closes: #503740)
   * Applied patch for proxy support from Luca Falavigna (Closes: #428260)
   * Applied preference window patch from Ubuntu (Closes: #432676)
   * Replace & with &amp; in popups (Closes: #420871)
   * Add debian/watch

 -- Alan Woodland <email address hidden> Sun, 13 Sep 2009 11:31:01 +0100