QT-Default Proxy Configuration [Linux]

[bmesing]

Hello,

do I have to provide an application specific mechanism to configure the proxy server or
does QT provide a built-in way to set the ProxyServer for all QT-based applications (qtconfig does not allow to set it)? Or does it honor http_proxy environment variable by default?
IMO it's quite insane to have to provide configuration options in each network application..

Best regards

Aqualoom

[bmesing]

Any Ideas here? It would also be interesting to know, how this kind of thing is handled for windows. Does QT use the system (i.e. IE) proxy settings?

[bmesing]

For the record:

QNetworkProxyFactory::systemProxyForQuery()
should do what I need. Does not work for Linux though (QT 4.6) :(

[ChrisW67]

QNetworkProxyFactory::setUseSystemConfiguration() is probably closer unless you want to manually get a proxy setting each time you issue a request. As you say, it doesn't do anything useful on Linux, but it is trivial to have your program honour an environment variable if that is acceptable.