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Bug 62946

Summary:	"Use System Proxy" ignores changes after app launch
Product:	platform	Reporter:	Jesse Glick <jglick>
Component:	-- Other --	Assignee:	Libor Fischmeistr <lfischmeistr>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	blocker	CC:	eppesuigoccas, jchalupa, rkubacki, ttran
Priority:	P3
Version:	5.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Exception Reporter:

Description Jesse Glick 2005-08-24 14:09:11 UTC

I would like to use "Use System Proxy". However "Use System Proxy" does not
generally work for me because it reads system proxy settings only when the IDE
is launched, and I often go on and off SWAN while the IDE is running. That is
why I generally prefer to explicitly control the proxy state in Options | System
Settings (formerly available also in the Setup Wizard). (Unfortunately this does
not seem to affect cvslite.)

Ideally under Gnome the IDE would consult "/usr/bin/gconftool-2 --get
/system/proxy/mode" every time it needed to know the proxy setting, but Java
does not support this for all usages (only has a system property, no callback).
Maybe we could use some trick like we use for the system clipboard and file
refreshes: when the main window gets focus, recheck the OS proxy settings and
possibly update the system property.

Won't work for Windows users however, since nbexec.exe uses native code to find
this info, but could at least be fixed for Gnome users.

Comment 1 Tomas Danek 2005-08-31 11:39:38 UTC

Isn't it conneted with issue 62798?

Comment 2 Jesse Glick 2005-08-31 16:41:07 UTC

I don't see any connection to issue #62798.

Comment 3 Jan Chalupa 2005-09-09 17:03:00 UTC

I'm not in favor of solutions that will work on some platforms under some
circumstances only. While this feature might be potentially implementable under
Gnome, there's currently no way to implement it on Windows (unless we want to
implement a JNI bridge that would repeatedly consult Windows registry) and other
platforms.

It would be a nice ENHANCEMENT, but I'm seriously thinking about closing it as
WONTFIX.

Comment 4 Marian Mirilovic 2006-10-23 09:17:17 UTC

Jirka this is yours, isn't it ?

Comment 5 _ rkubacki 2006-10-30 09:55:38 UTC

Is default ProxySelector in JDK capable to reflect proxy changes? I am afraid it
will have the same problem.

Comment 6 eppesuigoccas 2009-03-18 13:12:37 UTC

Is there any news about this  bug report?
How about checking for system proxy every time it is required instead of caching its value?

Comment 7 Libor Fischmeistr 2013-04-04 10:34:59 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 201731 ***