Why is it that every program seems to need to implement proxy recognition separately? Because their developers almost always aren't using a proxy, so they naturally forget. aptdaemon, bug 446069. apturl, bug 12609. Deskbar, bug 32770. F-Spot, bug 116796. Synaptic, bug 13661. Update Manager, bug 446552. Even msttcorefonts, bug 56880. Shouldn't this be fixed at the networking library level somehow?
Why is it that every program seems to need to implement proxy recognition separately? Because their developers almost always aren't using a proxy, so they naturally forget. aptdaemon, bug 446069. apturl, bug 12609. Deskbar, bug 32770. F-Spot, bug 116796. Synaptic, bug 13661. Update Manager, bug 446552. Even msttcorefonts, bug 56880. Shouldn't this be fixed at the networking library level somehow?