Comment 14 for bug 376760

Does not work for me either. ubuntuone-syncdaemon still tries to connect directly to the server and ignores the Gnome proxy settings as well as the environment variables http_proxy, https_proxy:

Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
tcp 0 1 ubuntu.local:34795 ec2-174-129-241-1:https SYN_SENT