GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 85929
User must guess proxy syntax in network preferences
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
If a user's proxy server is at proxy.myserver.com and they enter http://proxy.myserver.com or http://proxy.myserver.com/ or anything but proxy.myserver.com, there is no error. The applet just doesn't work. It would be nice if the syntax were more flexible or would at least display an error message if an invalid proxy server syntax was used.
This is only borderline high but I'm marking it as such because otherwise we'll get a slew of 'this doesn't work at all' reports.
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With network preference dialog whatever the values are supplied are set (no check is done to verify the values supplied). These values are used by the other components and gives the message if it fails to do the requested job.
Patched. It ain't pretty but it does work.
Tested on July 15th sources(Sparc Solars 2.9). I could reproduce this problem.
Tested on July 15th sources(Sparc Solaris 2.9). I could reproduce this problem. I'll test on the latest build and update.
What part of the problem, Jathish? Can you please provide the promised update?