[Bug 23640] [regression] Re-implement proxy support

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23640

--- Comment #16 from Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras at gmail.com> 2010-10-16 05:11:33 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #15)
> (In reply to comment #14)
> > All right, I didn't know about the http support in wocky. I thought the sane
> > way to do this would be to implement HTTP connect support directly on GLib, so
> > other apps could re-use that.
> 
> HTTP Connect proxy has not been accepted by GLib maintainers. Argument was that
> it most likely will reduce connectivity as most sysadmin configure their proxy
> to only accept proxied port to be 443.

Pfft. That's nonsense. GNOME network properties has an option to use the same
proxy for all protocols doesn't it? Thus GLib should work for that option.

> The code in Wocky is the code that was
> supposed to be in GLib (very few changes aside namespace). This might be
> reconsidered later.

Excellent, I think that would already help a lot.

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