Comment 28 for bug 556293

Taylor - I know that is a valid solution for many situations but it is not really a workaround, that is using the wrong users environment settings.

I have been working for 3 years with the Amazon Cloud from inside a big corporate and I am sick to the back teeth of these proxy issues that have been floating around for years. For every one that gets fixed another creeps in.

I suspect the entire approach to proxy configuration is wrong: it needs to be invisible to the applications, they should not require additional code to support proxy servers when the whole thing can be transparent. I think the best solution would be to run a lightweight forwarding-only transparent proxy server locally.