GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 421437
No way to configure authentication with automatic proxy
Last modified: 2021-06-09 16:12:41 UTC
The bug has been described on https://launchpad.net/bugs/94056 "Using Feisty (Linux 2.6.20-12-generic #2 SMP Sun Mar 18 03:07:14 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux) on my company laptop. I am working in one of our offices behind a proxy needing authentication (username, password). With System -> Preferences -> Network Proxy I configured "Automatic proxy configuration", but I can not enter a username and password, nor does any of the applications prompt me for these authentication details - except for Firefox. ... with this I can not use Gaim, Skype, Synaptic, etc. while I am at the office. Nor does Evolution download pictures contained in emails coming from outside our intranet. Other than that: Network support in Feisty is just great! I benefit from the roaming features a lot as I am working in different locations all the time. ... Found a workaround - one which I don't like: 1) find out which proxy url we define in our *.pac file (just open the URI of the configuration file in your browser) 2) Go to "System -> Preferences -> Network Proxy" 3) Select "Manual proxy configuration" 4) enter proxy URL and Port 5) click on "Details" button 6) enter user name and password 7) close the dialog 8) see if it works - yes it does 9) go back to "System -> Preferences -> Network Proxy" 10) Select "Automatic proxy configuration" (with URI of *.pac file) 11) close dialog 12) see if it works - yes it still does! Wonder if this is a bug or a feature - will find it out. However, I do not like storing the user name and password without encryption in a file. Can't Gnome be configured to store this in the Keychain or provide another more secure mechanism? Thanks"
*** Bug 498733 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to comment #0) > Can't Gnome be configured to store this in the Keychain or provide > another more secure mechanism? No, It's set as an environment variable, so there's not much point in hiding away the username and password. I suppose we probably need new textboxes for username and password when using wpad. I never knew that you could use that at all with wpad. Richard
now we don't provide a way to configure authentication with manual proxies either
oh, but there's a separate bug for that already (bug 646354)
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