Open Source Applications Foundation

[Design] Laptop-friendly proxy usage

Wayne Pierce Mon, 28 Oct 2002 17:42:26 -0500


Steven Vore wrote:
> At the risk of piling on yet another feature request, let me raise a voice
> for the laptop users - many of us are *sometimes* behind a firewall/proxy
> server and *sometimes* not. Network apps that need reconfiguring every time
> we change desks are extremely annoying. To that end, may I suggest that this
> (and any other network app the good folks here are working on) use some
> intelligence.

Lotus Notes does this by having a connection option with it's own 
network settings.  You can change the current connection without exiting 
the main program, this seems like a simple approach.

Wayne

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