Bug#612109: netcfg: Please auto-detect the need for an HTTP proxy

2011-02-07 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, extended quote for the benefit of debian-edu: On Sonntag, 6. Februar 2011, Josh Triplett wrote: > The question asking for an HTTP proxy could instead auto-detect the need > for a proxy by trying to fetch a fixed URI (networkcheck.debian.org?) > and only asking for a proxy if that fails to ret

Bug#612109: netcfg: Please auto-detect the need for an HTTP proxy

2011-02-06 Thread Joey Hess
Matthew Palmer wrote: > reassign 612109 choose-mirror-bin > thanks > > netcfg has nothing whatsoever to do with choosing a mirror. Just sayin'. > > On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 03:39:37PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > > The question asking for an HTTP proxy could instead auto-detect the need > > for

Bug#612109: netcfg: Please auto-detect the need for an HTTP proxy

2011-02-05 Thread Matthew Palmer
reassign 612109 choose-mirror-bin thanks netcfg has nothing whatsoever to do with choosing a mirror. Just sayin'. On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 03:39:37PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > The question asking for an HTTP proxy could instead auto-detect the need > for a proxy by trying to fetch a fixed URI

Bug#612109: netcfg: Please auto-detect the need for an HTTP proxy

2011-02-05 Thread Josh Triplett
Package: netcfg Severity: wishlist Didn't find an existing report for this, so reporting one. The question asking for an HTTP proxy could instead auto-detect the need for a proxy by trying to fetch a fixed URI (networkcheck.debian.org?) and only asking for a proxy if that fails to return the expe