Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-terminal
The fix for bug 48294 -- at least as implemented in gnome-terminal 2.27.92-0ubuntu1 from Karmic -- may be theoretically more correct, but it seems to have broken strictly more apps than it fixes. Steps to reproduce: 1) Go to System -> Preferences -> Network Proxy, select "Automatic proxy configuration", and enter the URL of a PAC proxy (I use http://webproxy.ucsd.edu/proxy.pl). 2) Start a gnome-terminal. 3) echo $http_proxy Before bug 48294 was fixed, this produced "http://:8080";, which breaks wget, but most apps are happy to ignore it this obviously invalid URL. One can reproduce the old behavior easily at the command line: $ http_proxy=http://:8080 wget google.com # FAILS: "Error parsing proxy URL" $ http_proxy=http://:8080 curl google.com # SUCCEEDS $ http_proxy=http://:8080 sudo apt-get update # SUCCEEDS With current gnome-terminal, the above steps result in http_proxy being set to "pac+http://webproxy.ucsd.edu/proxy.pl";. I cannot find any reference to this "pac+http" URL scheme anywhere, and indeed, apps do not know how to handle it: $ http_proxy=pac+http://webproxy.ucsd.edu/proxy.pl wget google.com # FAILS: "Error parsing proxy URL" $ http_proxy=pac+http://webproxy.ucsd.edu/proxy.pl curl google.com # FAILS: "couldn't connect" $ http_proxy=pac+http://webproxy.ucsd.edu/proxy.pl sudo apt-get update # FAILS: 404 errors So not only did this "fix" fail to fix the old broken software, it breaks new software, and the newly broken software is failing in very confusing ways. In the long run this should perhaps be considered a bug in wget, curl, apt-get, and every other HTTP implementation in in Ubuntu, but I'm filing against gnome-terminal because 1) that's what caused the regression, 2) at this point in the release cycle I'm guessing you might want to just unset http_proxy in these proxy auto-config cases (none of this software could parse the PAC file anyway, it requires a javascript interpreter), rather than try to fix everything everywhere... ** Affects: gnome-terminal (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Regression: "Automatic proxy configuration" + gnome-terminal now breaks apt-get, curl, wget... https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/433827 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
