Bug 189835

Summary:	don't notify user about a unreachable proxy configuration url so often
Product:	[Unmaintained] kio	Reporter:	Marc Schoechlin <ms-kdebugs>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Dawit Alemayehu <adawit>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	nate
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	triaged
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Marc Schoechlin 2009-04-16 21:26:55 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.2.2)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

If the proxy configuration url is no reachable every few minutes a popup notifies the user about that.
"Could not download the proxy configuration url...."

Firefox never complains about this - firefox simply tries to use a direct connection.

In my opinion it would be the better to notify the user only the first time the url is not reachable.

Comment 1 Dawit Alemayehu 2011-05-17 00:11:48 UTC

This message does not come from kio_http. It comes from the automatic proxy configuration handler which when it fails to download the proxy configuration script warns as mentioned. Re-assigning to kio/general...

Comment 2 Dawit Alemayehu 2011-05-28 00:47:41 UTC

For the record this cannot be compared with how firefox behaves because proxy configuration in KDE is system wide and not specific to one application. As such there is no way for it to know which application it just notified about and which it did not. Also, you get notification only when it attempts to retrieve the proxy configuration file and fail and for any fail it waits a certain period of time before it retries to download the configuration file again. 

Anyhow, will see what can be done about this in the future once all the remaining proxy related issues are ironed out.

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2018-04-25 21:35:33 UTC

Is this still relevant or applicable with KDE Frameworks 5.45?

Comment 4 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-09-28 03:11:46 UTC

Dear Bug Submitter,

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Comment 5 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-10-28 03:39:32 UTC

Dear Bug Submitter,

This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 30 days. The bug is now closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME due to lack of needed information.

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