Bug#773074: browser-plugin-gnash: gnash ignores proxy settings

[Gabriele Giacone]

On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 1:15 AM, Dr. Lars Hanke <lars at lhanke.de> wrote:
> trying to watch any youtube video I saw my firewall logging connections
> to external systems on port 443. The port is blocked, since all traffic
> is expected to pass through a proxy. Iceweasel is configured accordingly.
>
> I tried to add https_proxy=proxy.fqdn:8080 to the "command to open addresses"
> in the "Player" tab of the gnash configuration, but I guess it's the wrong
> place anyway - it did not help.

Gnash sets http_proxy variable by inheriting it from browser proxy
configuration. Not sure it currently inherits https_proxy as well.
You might workaround it with
$ https_proxy=proxy.fqdn:8080 iceweasel

> I could not find any other place to configure a proxy for gnash.
>
> If I allow access to external systems on 443 the video is played.
>
> The behaviour was identical with 0.8.11~git20120629-1+deb7u1, i.e.
> the standard wheezy packet.

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On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 1:15 AM, Dr. Lars Hanke <lars at lhanke.de> wrote:
> Package: browser-plugin-gnash
> Version: 0.8.11~git20140319+dfsg-1~bpo70+1
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> trying to watch any youtube video I saw my firewall logging connections
> to external systems on port 443. The port is blocked, since all traffic
> is expected to pass through a proxy. Iceweasel is configured accordingly.
>
> I tried to add https_proxy=proxy.fqdn:8080 to the "command to open addresses"
> in the "Player" tab of the gnash configuration, but I guess it's the wrong
> place anyway - it did not help.
>
> I could not find any other place to configure a proxy for gnash.
>
> If I allow access to external systems on 443 the video is played.
>
> The behaviour was identical with 0.8.11~git20120629-1+deb7u1, i.e.
> the standard wheezy packet.
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 7.7
>   APT prefers stable-updates
>   APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> Versions of packages browser-plugin-gnash depends on:
> ii  gnash                     0.8.11~git20140319+dfsg-1~bpo70+1
> ii  libboost-iostreams1.49.0  1.49.0-3.2
> ii  libc6                     2.13-38+deb7u6
> ii  libgcc1                   1:4.7.2-5
> ii  libglib2.0-0              2.33.12+really2.32.4-5
> ii  libstdc++6                4.7.2-5
>
> browser-plugin-gnash recommends no packages.
>
> Versions of packages browser-plugin-gnash suggests:
> pn  browser-plugin-lightspark  <none>
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>



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