297480 - proxy inclusion list ("only proxy for") (vs. exclusion list ("no proxy for"))

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 212318

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Endre Stolsvik]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050517 Firefox/1.0.4 (Debian package 1.0.4-2)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050517 Firefox/1.0.4 (Debian package 1.0.4-2)

The proxy configuration window allows for exlusion of hosts or "globs" of hosts:
"No Proxy for:"

However, in my situation, sitting outside of the office, with a SSH-tunnel to a
proxy inside the office, I'd like to specify _which_ hosts whose requests should
go to the proxy, while all others should go with direct connection. (This
obviously both to get access to the companyinternal httpservers, but also so
that my ip in certain situations seems to come from the office gw.)

Thus, an "only proxy for" option would be great.

(An even better system would maybe be to be able to define a bunch of (named)
proxy configurations, and then "apply"/attach these configurations to different
hosts.)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
n/a

Actual Results:  
n/a

Expected Results:  
n/a

Comment 1

[Endre Stolsvik]

Might be related to bug #133903 - at least the summary is pretty much what I'm
looking for, but the rest of the description and comments aren't quite..!

Comment 2

[zug_treno]

Duplicate of/related to Core bug 135198 and Core bug 212318 ?

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Endre Stolsvik]

Re the auto-resolve: There are at least three feature requests that describe the
eaxct same feature, but with some different suggestions of how to best solve it.
Two of them can probably be duped, by taking the different suggestions to one
bug. (E.g. this' idea of the advanced "named proxy configurations" and "apply to")

Bug #135198
Bug #212318
This bug #297480

I'd _really_ appreciate this feature - it affects me _every_ day!

Comment 5

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 212318 ***