GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 167281
Support for http proxy autoconfiguration
Last modified: 2011-01-13 12:40:51 UTC
Version details: 0.25.1 Distribution/Version: Debian testing/unstable 1. Set the machine's network proxy to "Automatic proxy configuration" (I use my university's .pac file: http://www.cam.ac.uk/proxyconfig.pac) by going to the GNOME menu and selecting Applications -> Desktop Preferences -> Network Proxy. 2. Open straw, and try to refresh feed(s). 3. Straw places the "cog" icon next to the feed(s) and waits, seemingly forever. If, however, the network proxy is set to "Direct internet connection" then feeds update fine. See also: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=245628
*** Bug 167282 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Looking through the code I seem to have located two different bugs... The first is that if the gnome proxy settings are set to an IP address then LookupManager.get_instance().lookup in Config.py returns None, so that when URLFeed.py tries to use the proxy, the IP isn't set. However, setting the proxy to a hostname doesn't cure all the problems. The second problems seems to occur much later, and it appears that the connection works and the servers return their data over http, the underyling asyncore dispatcher doesn't seem to ever detect an end of stream and so doesn't finish. I've only really noticed this since I moved to python 2.4, so perhaps there were some changes that went on. Anyway, without the connection closing it all just seems to hang in an inifinite poll. I've located a python bug report about asyncore not detected ends of connection if in poll mode, but it's a bit old and I don't know if it's relevant. ( http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=953599&group_id=5470&atid=105470 ) If anyone can take this further it'd be great because at the moment straw simply won't get anywhere. Thanks, Mike 5:)
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Straw development has been stalled and it has been unmaintained for a few years now. Maintainers don't have future development plan so i am closing bugs as WONTFIX. Please feel free to reopen the bugs in future if anyone takes the responsibility for active development.