RE: [Piggy Bank] proxy settings

From: Stephan Strittmatter <Stephan_at_st-strittmatter.name>
Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 21:40:12 +0200

Hello,

I had a look into the sources, but I am really not familar in Firefox-Plugin
development and have no idea where to start. Is there someone who could give
me a short hint, where to start?

Regards,

Stephan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefano Mazzocchi [mailto:stefanom_at_mit.edu]
> Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 4:08 PM
> To: general_at_simile.mit.edu
> Subject: Re: [Piggy Bank] proxy settings
>
>
> Stephan Strittmatter wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I wanted to play with the Piggy Bank Plugin for Firefox,
> but I have to set
> > up a proxy to reach the Internet.
> > I tried to set up the Proxy options of the plugin, but the
> data is not
> > stored. If I reopen the Option window the fields are reset
> to be empty.
> >
> > * Can I set these settings manualy in an property file? If
> yes, where is it
> > located? (I already searched but found nothing)
>
> I think those proxy settings are pretty much fake. It was a
> reminder for
> us to do it and then we didn't have time for the release.
>
> > * Is there already a JIRA entry for this issue?
>
> not sure is the one you think, but it's close
>
> http://simile.mit.edu/issues/browse/PIGGYBANK-34
>
> > * Why you are not using the proxy settings of Firefox,
> which yould be
> > flexible by using proxyconf.js?
>
> good point, we should.
>
> btw, this is an open source project. Patches are welcome :-)
>
> (and here at MIT we don't have proxies so don't count on us
> to make that
> a big priority)
>
> --
> Stefano Mazzocchi
> Research Scientist Digital Libraries Research Group
> Massachusetts Institute of Technology location: E25-131C
> 77 Massachusetts Ave telephone: +1 (617) 253-1096
> Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 email: stefanom at mit . edu
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