Comment 10 for bug 433827

I don't know if my problem is similar or not, but here are the details:

I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS with latest updates.

At work, we use a proxy and we have an automatic script for that. This is handy so when I'm home, it does not find the script and no proxy is configured which is what I want.

Anyway, I performed the above steps described in this bug report: configuration automatic proxy, applying it system wide, launching gnome-terminal and echoing $http_proxy or even $HTTP_PROXY.
The result is that none of the env variables are defined!

So many applications are broken: weather applet, wget, Update Manager, Ubuntu Software Centre, Eclipse, etc. actually it's easier to give the list of application working with this: Firefox and Chromium.

So this bug is critical in my opinion! Or maybe the new bug that I would need to open if it is not directly related. ;-)