Network proxy settings do not respect proxy protocol

[Marcos David]

Package: gnome-control-center Version: 1:3.4.2-0ubuntu19
Ubuntu Version: 12.10

When configuring a proxy server there is no option to set the correct protocol to use.

I have an HTTP only proxy but if i use http://IPAddress for all values of the proxy (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP,SOCKS) the resulting systems vars are:

ftp_proxy="ftp://IPAddress:3128/"
http_proxy="http://IPAddress:3128/"
https_proxy="https://IPAddress:3128/"
socks_proxy="socks://IPAddress:3128/"

which makes ftp browsing to stop working since my proxy only accepts HTTP protocol....

the expect values are:

ftp_proxy="http://IPAddress:3128/"
http_proxy="http://IPAddress:3128/"
https_proxy="http://IPAddress:3128/"
socks_proxy="http://IPAddress:3128/"

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, if you have an http only proxy then let the other fields empty, that's not a bug...

[Marcos David (marcosgdavid)]

If I only set the http_proxy then https and ftp won't work!

ftp and https must pass through the http proxy

I should be able to manually specify the protocol or the URL for the proxy and the GUI should assume it is ftp or https by default.

If I try to use the GUI to set the network proxy I end up with a broken configuration.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Ok, keeping as a wishlist, I don't think there is a way to conciliate your usecase with the standard one without adding "protocole" combos for each protocole line in the UI, which would be weird

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

(or we would need a "use the same proxy for all protocols" checkbox)

[Marcos David (marcosgdavid)]

That same proxy for all protocols seems a better, and simpler, option ;-)

Thanks.