proxy settings are not applied properly

[Fabus]

I've been online for several hours in Uni using a proxy.
I set the proxy up using the Network Proxy control from the preferences menu. Everything works fine.
No that I am back home I cannot use the internet with any program that runs from terminal or uses sudo/gksu (hence running under root).

I used "Apply system-wide..." for 4 times now and even switched the settings and still the following things do not work:
* Synaptic still tries to use the proxy
* The terminal still prints out the proxy with echo $http_proxy (see bugs 48294 and 88380)
* apt-get still tries to use the proxy

What can I do?

[Matthieu (gapp-martin)]

Click on "Apply system-wide..." and reboot the whole system - should work then!

That bug is really bothering me! I'm always forgetting to disable the proxy and click on the "Apply system-wide..." Button before I'm going home.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, assigning the bug to mvo who worked on the current proxy code

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

The system wide proxy configuration is not very dynanmic. When you reset your proxy (set it to direct connection) and open a new terminal window, does that still show a proxy when you "echo $http_proxy" ?

[Fabus (fabian-gebert-hh)]

I don't know, it's working fine right now. Have there been any changes to the proxy code?
I will try to reproduce again.

[Fabus (fabian-gebert-hh)]

I now found a way to reproduce it: Once you've set up the proxy system-wide and then restarted the system, it does not reset the proxy if you tell him to do so, at least not in a way that makes echo $http_proxy return nothing.
So you do the following:
* set up proxy system wide
* restart
* reset to direct connection
* check proxy, it will still be in $http_proxy (though not in Firefox if set to "use system settings")

[frdu0001 (esl-fdumont)]

@Michael Vogt
I apply the system wide proxy configuration (setting it to direct connection) and after closing the dialog I open a new terminal.
echo $http_proxy still saying me the old proxy entry for example http_proxy="192.168.0.1"

As a little "workaround": in terminal you can type --> export http_proxy=""

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

is that still an issue in jaunty?

[Nick Sarten (gen-battle)]

Confirming this is still an issue in jaunty.

1. Edited proxy settings.
2. Used "Apply System-Wide" button
3. Synaptic, Add/Remove and Update Manager all still use the previous proxy settings.

Restarting does solve the problem, it just defeats the point of having the ability to apply the settings immediately.

[mildertduck (r-j-l-hornby)]

I have just encountered this bug, however frdu0001's workaround worked.