This bug may be fixed but it's not working for me. The reason in my case though is that the weather applet (and gnome proxy in general) doesn't seem able to deal with proxy authentication which is required on my site.
1250239082.625 136 172.16.1.3 TCP_DENIED/407 1906 GET http://weather.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/mgetmetar.pl? - NONE/- text/html Gavin -- weather applet won't use automatic-proxy-configuration https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/153301 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