[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#603191: chromium-browser: privoxy/ipv6 does not work for --proxy-server
Christian Jaeger
chrjae at gmail.com
Thu Nov 11 19:33:53 UTC 2010
Package: chromium-browser
Version: 6.0.472.63~r59945-1
Severity: normal
Hello
When trying to configure Chromium to use Privoxy (the privoxy Debian package), there are two (separate?) issues:
1. in the gui options dialog, clicking on "change proxy settings" just display the following text in the top browser window:
When running Chromium under a supported desktop environment, the
system proxy settings will be used. However, either your system is
not supported or there was a problem launching your system
configuration.
But you can still configure via the command line. Please see man
chromium-browser for more information on flags and environment
variables.
2. starting Chromium as
chromium-browser --proxy-server=localhost:8118
makes it unable to get any web page, apparently because privoxy is listening on ::1, but not on 127.0.0.1. Even this
chromium-browser --proxy-server=ipv6-localhost:8118
does not help. Changing /etc/privoxy/config
-listen-address localhost:8118
+listen-address 127.0.0.1:8118
and restarting privoxy makes Chromium as
chromium-browser --proxy-server=localhost:8118
work.
So thanks to this workaround, I can still use it. Hopefully people can at least find this bug as help in case it cannot be fixed for the next release.
I guess this is really a duplicate of bug #601255, but not being sure and to provide my own software versions I'm sending this separate report.
Christian.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages chromium-browser depends on:
ii chromium-browser-ins 6.0.472.63~r59945-1 page inspector for the chromium-br
ii libasound2 1.0.23-2.1 shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii libatk1.0-0 1.30.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.5-6 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii libc6 2.11.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcairo2 1.8.10-6 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libcups2 1.4.4-3 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.24-3 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.88-2 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libevent-1.4-2 1.4.13-stable-1 An asynchronous event notification
ii libexpat1 2.0.1-7 XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.4.2-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.5-4 GCC support library
ii libgconf2-4 2.28.1-5 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libgcrypt11 1.4.5-2 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii libgl1-mesa-glx [lib 7.7.1-4 A free implementation of the OpenG
ii libglewmx1.5 1.5.4-1 The OpenGL Extension Wrangler - ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.2-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.20.1-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libicu44 4.4.1-6 International Components for Unico
ii libjpeg62 6b1-1 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libnspr4-0d 4.8.6-1 NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii libnss3-1d 3.12.8-1 Network Security Service libraries
ii libpango1.0-0 1.28.3-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpng12-0 1.2.44-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libstdc++6 4.4.5-4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libv8-2.2.24 2.2.24-6 V8 JavaScript Engine
ii libvpx0 0.9.1-1 VP8 video codec (shared library)
ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-3 X11 client-side library
ii libxext6 2:1.1.2-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxml2 2.7.7.dfsg-4 GNOME XML library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.6-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxslt1.1 1.1.26-6 XSLT 1.0 processing library - runt
ii libxss1 1:1.2.0-2 X11 Screen Saver extension library
ii xdg-utils 1.0.2+cvs20100307-2 desktop integration utilities from
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
chromium-browser recommends no packages.
Versions of packages chromium-browser suggests:
pn chromium-browser-l10n <none> (no description available)
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