ports/133794: x11/gnome2: No go with automatic proxy configuration

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 22:07 +0200, Andreas Wetzel wrote:
> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 14:40 +0000, Andreas Wetzel wrote:
> >> The following reply was made to PR ports/133794; it has been noted by GNATS.
> >>
> >> From: Andreas Wetzel <mickey242 at gmx.net>
> >> To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, mickey242 at gmx.net
> >> Cc:  
> >> Subject: Re: ports/133794: x11/gnome2: No go with automatic proxy configuration
> >> Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 16:38:49 +0200
> >>
> >>  The output is always the same for all three scenarios: direct connection, 
> >>  manual proxy configuration, auto proxy configuration:
> >>  
> >> http://www.freebsd.org
> >>  *** Unable to locate valid config! Falling back to auto-detection...
> >>  *** PAC found, but no active PAC runner! Falling back to direct...
> >>  direct://
> >>  
> >>
> >>  The PAC file looks like this, and is served as content-type
> >>  'application/x-ns-proxy-autoconfig':
> >>  
> >>  function FindProxyForURL(url, host)
> >>  {
> >>           if(isPlainHostName(host) || dnsDomainIs(host, ".mydomain.tld"))
> >>                   return "DIRECT";
> >>  
> >>           return  "PROXY 10.1.1.1:3128; DIRECT";
> >>  }
> > 
> > Looks like you need to install one of libproxy-mozjs or libproxy-webkit
> > to get a PAC runner (i.e. a JavaScript engine).  Try installing one of
> > those, and see if you can use the PAC.
> 
> I have now installed libproxy-webkit, which seems to do the job:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org
> http://10.6.6.1:3128 direct://
> 
> Well, despite the fact, that proxy still dumps core, when i press ^D

Did you capture a back trace with symbols?

> 
> libproxy-mozjs wants to install firefox2, which i was finally glad to get rid 
> of after all, so thanks, but no thanks :)

At the time, all we had was firefox.  Try adding libxul to the USE_GECKO
line, and see if you can build with libxul instead.

> 
> Maybe it is interesting, that there has been a change between Gnome 2.26.0 and 
> Gnome 2.26.1. With 2.26.0 and automatic proxy configuration enabled, the 
> weather applet was not able to retrieve data at all. With 2.26.1 it was. 
> Though i could not tell, whether it would have used the proxy, either 
> voluntarily or involuntarily.

There were changes to libgweather and libsoup.  I haven't looked at them
in detail, but it is possible that some proxy related changes were made.

Joe

> 
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