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| Re: Proxy configuration is ignored (ERROR HTTP Proxy Authentication Required) [message #1827008 is a reply to message #1826916] |
Wed, 06 May 2020 06:08   |
 Ed Merks
Messages: 33145
Registered: July 2009 |
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> Why does my login details disappear everytime I edit these via the 'Network Proxy Settings' page ?
The proxy settings are stored in the installer's preferences, but on Windows the installer is distributed as a "self extracting executable", so the installer is located in your temp folder and a new one is extracted each time run. If you switch to advanced model (via the menu in the upper right), it will ask if you want to keep the installer in a permanent location. If you do that, the preferences will persist. The installer also supports self-update, so if you keep it, you can also keep it up-to-date.
> What the heck does the 'Native' proxy settings mean ?
This means it will delegate to the operating system's proxy setting support. But given I don't sit behind a proxy, it's hard to say what that exactly means. And of course this is different for each operating system. In the end these are implement by the Eclipse Platform, not by Oomph so I'm not an expert in how all that is supposed to work.
> What can I do to complete the installation ? I am aware of the option to download the Prebuilt binary without any installation step. But I just wonder what is going wrong here ?
Apparently you need to configure your proxy settings "correctly" but given I can't reproduce your environment, it's impossible for me to say what's correct in your particular situation. Probably keeping it in a permanent location and using advanced mode to check that your proxy settings are configured as expected would help.
> Finally, If I search for proxy and eclipse on the internet, there are millions of search results starting as early as 2009. Multiple issues related to proxy, in one or the other form. So how long does eclipse need to fix this issue consistently ? Its a shame that such a trivial issue still exists in so many forms for so so long. How come everyone else manages to get over this while eclipse sucks big time !!!
Yes, Eclipse has been around for a very long time and it has millions of users. But very few of them ever click on the donate button:
https://www.eclipse.org/setups/donate/
My guess is that it will probably take forever to fix the issue consistently for several reason:
Firstly because it's not a trivial issue despite your assumption to the contrary. Firewalls and proxies can totally mess up the expected flow of network traffic, messing with headers and modifying behavior. Of course that is exactly the intent of such things, but it makes it a challenge to reproduce locally what someone else is experiencing in their special environment. But Eclipse is open source and is primarily focused on targeting open environment; that's what most of the developers work on.
Secondly while you are no doubt being paid to work on some software, you are using Eclipse for free. And most likely the company that is paying you has also not contributed anything to the community. So while you have high expectations, which is not at all unreasonable, in the end, free is free, and you get what you get. If you want more, you should consider what you can do to ensure that more happens. It's significant to note that no one is paying me to help you nor to develop any of this software. But probably someone is paying you and probably someone is paying the IT staff who manage your proxy and firewall, so if you complain to them you'll get paid to complain and they'll get paid to listen and maybe between the two of you, you can figure out how you need to configure your network settings.
Ed Merks
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