[Development] Should the system proxies default setting be switched to true?

[Thiago Macieira]

See https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-53649

Em sexta-feira, 13 de maio de 2016, às 09:11:35 PDT, Andy Shaw escreveu:
> Since there does not seem to be any general objections, I have submitted a
> patch for this - https://codereview.qt-project.org/159120 - this is for
> 5.8. If anyone does see an issue then please say so in the comments, I will
> give it a bit of time before merging once it gets its +2 in order to give
> it a chance to be tried out in case someone hits a problem.
> 
> Andy
> ________________________________________
> Fra: Simon Hausmann
> Sendt: 12. mai 2016 10:01:35
> Til: Andy Shaw; Kai Koehne; development at qt-project.org
> Emne: Re: [Development] Should the system proxies default setting be
> switched   to true?
> 
> Right, it begs the question: If a third-party application like Chrome can
> use system proxy settings by default, why can't or don't we? :)
> 
> 
> Simon
> ________________________________________
> From: Development <development-bounces+simon.hausmann=qt.io at qt-project.org>
> on behalf of Andy Shaw <andy.shaw at qt.io> Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2016
> 9:54:41 AM
> To: Kai Koehne; development at qt-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Development] Should the system proxies default setting be
> switched        to true?
> 
> There is an issue but this comes from the Windows side and is also
> documented by Microsoft as being a problem I believe on their side. But
> this should only be experienced the first time it needs to do this though,
> whereas before it would do this all the time. However, I would personally
> expect that if this is happening for a user, it will not be happening for
> just Qt either.
> 
> Andy
> ________________________________________
> Fra: Kai Koehne
> Sendt: 12. mai 2016 08:41:21
> Til: Andy Shaw; development at qt-project.org
> Emne: RE: [Development] Should the system proxies default setting be
> switched   to true?
> 
> +1 for switching to using the system proxy settings by default.
> 
> I'm still a bit wary about the 'Windows issue' though. To cite our
> documentation [1]:
> 
>   "On Windows platforms, this function may take several seconds to execute
> depending on the configuration of the user's system."
> 
> Was that the problem with Windows versions configured for automatically
> querying for PAC files, but never getting any response?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Kai
> 
> [1]: http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qnetworkproxyfactory.html#systemProxyForQuery
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Development [mailto:development-bounces+kai.koehne=qt.io at qt-
> > project.org] On Behalf Of Andy Shaw
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2016 3:51 PM
> > To: development at qt-project.org
> > Subject: [Development] Should the system proxies default setting be
> > switched to true?
> > 
> > For some time now we have had the means to configure Qt to use system
> > proxies so that they are on by default or to turn it on via
> > QNetworkProxyFactory. However, this is off by default so it is becoming a
> > reoccurrence that people don't realise that it is not using the system
> > proxies until later on. Potentially not until after a product has been
> > released.
> > 
> > 
> > The reasoning that this was not done before was due to the fact that there
> > was a problem on Windows with it taking too long in some cases to get the
> > information. However this seems to be solved for the most part and
> > expected in some cases due to the fact that it is down to the system, but
> > it is just an initial start up check in this case.
> > 
> > 
> > That said, does anyone see any problems with switching it so that we can
> > now have it turned on by default from Qt 5.8? Naturally the configure
> > option would stay so people can still turn it off if they wish.
> > 
> > For reference the original thread about this can be found:
> >   http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2012-> > 
> > October/007037.html
> > 
> > 
> > Andy
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