Re: Re: Proxy compliance and assistance.

2011-09-23 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:23:34PM -0500, Mike Mestnik wrote: > There is no point in fighting about the better way if the person > advocating the better way is not willing or able to do anything more > then put pen to paper. Either write a better patch or get out of > the way of progress. It's im

Re: Re: Proxy compliance and assistance.

2011-09-22 Thread Mike Mestnik
On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 at 14:13:31 -0500, Mike Mestnik wrote: I'd like to start a movement to verify and assist projects/packages with the proper deployment of software that supports proxies. In GLib-based applications, connecting using GSocketClient while having glib-networking installed will aut

Re: RE : Re: Proxy compliance and assistance.

2011-09-22 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 at 18:31:46 +0200, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > See libproxy package > Le 22 sept. 2011 12:10, "Simon McVittie" a écrit : > In GLib-based applications, connecting using GSocketClient while having > glib-networking installed will automatically use a configured proxy FYI, that cu

RE : Re: Proxy compliance and assistance.

2011-09-22 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
See libproxy package It could be improved but it. Work Bastien Le 22 sept. 2011 12:10, "Simon McVittie" a écrit : On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 at 14:13:31 -0500, Mike Mestnik wrote: > I'd like to start a movement to verify ... In GLib-based applications, connecting using GSocketClient while having glib

Re: Proxy compliance and assistance.

2011-09-22 Thread Simon McVittie
On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 at 14:13:31 -0500, Mike Mestnik wrote: > I'd like to start a movement to verify and assist projects/packages > with the proper deployment of software that supports proxies. In GLib-based applications, connecting using GSocketClient while having glib-networking installed will au

Re: Proxy compliance and assistance.

2011-09-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 3:13 AM, Mike Mestnik wrote: > Members of the task force should be considerate of all different types of > proxies.  http(caching and non-caching); http-connect(both port filtered and > not port filtered); socks(in all it's glorious iterations); plus anything > else that fa

Proxy compliance and assistance.

2011-09-21 Thread Mike Mestnik
Hello, ASYMK there are a number of different proxies technologies and it's not impossible to be in a position where there use is mandatory. I've recently looked into a number of bugs against Canonical's Ubuntu: [1]479630 [2]370924 1. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/479630 2. https://bugs.l