[CentOS] Google chrome vs network settings proxy?

Thu Jun 12 15:33:15 UTC 2014
Billy Crook <bcrook at riskanalytics.com>

Makes me wonder what happens if a site uses spdy://


On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 11:22 PM, Gé Weijers <ge at weijers.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >>  However, I can start a chrome connection to gmail and it just goes
> >> direct (which happens to work, I just prefer the proxy which will use
> >> a different outbound route).   If I go to any non-google site, it uses
> >> the proxy and will pop up the expected authentication dialog on the
> >> first connection.   Does anyone know (a) why it bypasses the proxy
> >> when going to a google site, (b) why it doesn't have its own internal
> >> proxy settings, or (c) how to fix it?
> >>
> >
> > Did you configure the proxy for HTTPS? Gmail uses HTTPS exclusively these
> > days, the certificate is pinned (hard coded) in Chrome to prevent
> spoofing,
> > maybe the protocol is too. Time for 'tcpdump'?
>
> Yes, that turned out to be the problem.  I had only set http in the
> system settings and must have bookmarked/saved the https url so it
> didn't even need the initial redirect.
>
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>    Les Mikesell
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