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Feature Requests: Temporarily disable proxy redirection

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    • CommentAuthorlakej
    • CommentTimeJun 30th 2009
     
    I move between home and work a lot. When I'm at work, I don't need to use a proxy - (in fact, it slows down browsing significantly) and I haven't found a quick way to disable redirection through proxies without deleting the proxy and losing the saved sites, etc.

    It would be nice to have a toggle in the proxy settings that would simply turn off proxy redirection entirely. Bonus points if you can do it automatically by IP address / mask.
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    How are you moving between the two? Proxy settings aren't synced, so you shouldn't have this problem if you're using syncing in Zotero 2.0. If you're copying your entire Zotero data directory, the settings would be copied.
    • CommentAuthorlakej
    • CommentTimeJun 30th 2009
     
    Oh! I carry my laptop - it's the same computer and thus the same Firefox profile. Th eonly thing that changes is the internet connection.
    • CommentAuthorJoeV
    • CommentTimeAug 3rd 2009
     
    Me too. Worse than just being slow, some resources aren't available through the proxy that are available through a direct connection at work.

    Here are some suggestions for how to add the temporary disable to the UI, in order of increasing ease of use and increasing difficulty of implementation:

    - Add a "Disable proxies" checkbox to the Proxies tab of the Preferences window.
    - Add a "Disable" checkbox column to the "Configured proxies" table, in the Preferences window under the Proxies tab. (This would allow the user to disable individual proxies.)
    - Add a "Disable proxies" toggle to the Zotero Actions menu button (the "gear" menu button that also contains Import, Preferences, and About Zotero).
    - Add a "Disable proxies" button to the Zotero button bar (the one that contains the New Collection, New Group, and Action menus). Would this be UI clutter?
    - Auto-detect whether to use a proxy based on current IP address. I am not sure there is the infrastructure in Firefox to support this, and it has the possibility of making things quite complicated. But for cases like mine, having a single proxy entry with a setting for "Do not use this proxy when my IP address is A.B.*.* or C.D.E.*" would be perfect.
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    I'd like to add my support for this feature. I also carry a laptop back and forth between home and work, and would like to be able to disable proxying at will.

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