Ticket #233 (new enhancement)

Opened 3 years ago

Last modified 3 months ago

Obtain proxy settings from Mozilla

Reported by: courmisch Assigned to:
Priority: normal Milestone: Features paradize
Component: Access Version: master
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc: Platform(s): all
Difficulty: easy Work status: Not started

Description

The Mozilla plugin should obtain its HTTP proxy settings from Mozilla (unless VLC has its own settings). I don't know if Mozilla's API allow that though, or if it's not already supported (ie. if Mozilla sets the http_proxy environment variable).

Change History

06/25/05 18:08:55 changed by courmisch

  • severity changed from normal to enhancement.

07/09/05 12:30:05 changed by zorglub

  • milestone changed from 0.8.4 (feature freeze) to 0.8.5.

08/21/05 09:59:26 changed by zorglub

  • owner changed from fenrir to courmisch.
  • milestone changed from 0.8.5 to Features paradize.

Well, anyway, the mozilla plugin should not do HTTP, but let mozilla do it (see #don'trememberwhichticket)

02/09/06 18:22:55 changed by courmisch

  • version set to HEAD.

08/29/06 18:25:42 changed by damienf

  • due_assign changed.
  • include_gantt changed.
  • dependencies changed.
  • due_close changed.

to get around this problem, a plugin can ask mozilla to open a URL and stream the data to it; however we're not supporting it. I guess VLC should try to read the environment settings, as would firefox.

08/29/06 20:32:01 changed by courmisch

VLC already reads the http_proxy environment variable, but that only works on Linux & friends, and only if the user is shell-literate. Definitely not applicable on Windows (and possibly not supported on OS X). Plus there are cases that cannot be simply described by the http_proxy variable: when you use a Proxy Autoconfiguration Script (.pac).

09/12/06 16:22:35 changed by courmisch

  • owner deleted.

01/22/07 20:46:04 changed by Neo

  • status changed from new to assigned.
  • owner set to Neo.
  • wip changed from Not started to Started.

05/29/08 21:58:25 changed by courmisch

  • status changed from assigned to new.
  • owner deleted.
  • wip changed from Started to Not started.