[plug] 'No proxy' for Galeon

[Peter F Bradshaw]

Hi Mark;

On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Mark O'Shea wrote:

> On Thu, June 23, 2005 5:29 pm, Peter F Bradshaw said:
> >> It certainly _used_ to be a browser setting.  While Gnome sometimes
> >> subscribes to the "providing functionality would confuse people"
> >> school of thought and doesn't provide extra options, it seems that in
> >> this case it does: the "ignore host list" box in the "advanced
> >> settings" tab sounds like what you're after.
> >
> > "ignore host list": Which does not exist on any of these systems (Gnome
> > 2.8.1).
> >
> > The only solution I can see is to install squid on each system, and point
> > the Galeons to those, and use those squids to select a firewall proxy or
> > local httpd. Bit of a mess.
> >
> An easier way would be to use gconftool-2 to change the setting if it
> isn't available via the gui config tools.

Ok. I haven't come across this toll before.

>
> A quick search on google for the key name gives me a command line that
> might work:
>
> gconftool-2 -s -t list --list-type string /system/http_proxy/ignore_hosts
> "[list of hosts]"

That's the one. Looks like gconftool-2 has everything I need and more.
Thanks.

>
> I hope this helps.
>
>

Cheers

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