[Galeon-devel] Intranets and Galeon 0.12

[<thr...@at...>]

I got the day off work today, so I had more time to spend online -
having RedHat 6.0 installed on my machine here, I didn't upgrade to
Galeon 0.12 when it first came out because there weren't RH6 packages
of Mozilla 0.9.3. So today I found RH6 packages of Mozilla, downloaded
Moz RPMs, Galeon RPMs, GConf SRPMs, and installed the whole shebang.

Well, to my intense surprise, it all seems to be working fine - with
one minor exception:

On my home network, I have a Linux PC (mine) and a Win95 PC (the rest
of the family). Acting as Internet gateway, a third PC running
Smoothwall Linux (www.smoothwall.org) sits in a closet - this third PC
does DNS proxy and NAT, and is named hermes.

The way Smoothwall works is you point your browser (In this case,
Galeon) at the gateway box (http://hermes), and in the resulting
web-page, click the "Dial" button, it dials your ISP, and away you go.

Now, my ISP has an enforced web-proxy. This isn't really a problem -
in Galeon 0.11.3, Mozilla, Netscape 4.x, and so forth, I just set up
the proxy and put "hermes" in the "No proxy for:" textbox.

However, Galeon 0.12 has... difficulty with this. If I turn proxies
off, and type "hermes" in the address bar, hermes' dialling page loads
fine. If I turn proxies on, and type "hermes" in the addressbar, I get
an error dialog saying "Could not find host www.google.com".

When proxies are on, it doesn't matter if I type "hermes",
"http://hermes", "http://hermes/cgi-bin/index.cgi" (a valid URL), or
even "http://hermes.thristian.org" (thristian.org being a fake domain
name defined on my LAN) - every time Galeon complains about
www.google.com.

Naturally, I'm offline during all this - if I were online, I expect
Google would search for "hermes" on Google or something.

I can work around this by toggling proxies every time I want to talk
to hermes (to dial up or hang up), but it worked before, and this
seems like a regression.

Sorry about the long post, but I've got a fairly esoteric setup and I
wanted to explain it fully. :)

detail summary: Moz 0.9.3 RPMs: vanilla, -psm, and -devel, Galeon 0.12
installed from RPM, GConf 1.0.4 installed from a SRPM I found linked
to on the Galeon download page. Ran Galeon, it worked, closed it,
opened it, settings went bizzare[1], ran oaf-slay, started galeon again,
settings worked OK, but problem persisted.

[1] By "bizzare", I mean I'd change a setting in the Prefs window, hit
OK, open the prefs window, and it would have reverted. Also, the
"Enable proxies" menu-item, and the "Enable proxies" check-box in
prefs were out of sync. oaf-slay cleared all this up.

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