On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Guillaume Lelarge
> <guillaume@lelarge.info> wrote:
>> Please, reply to the list so that people can answer, not just me.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 00:24 +0100, Ciro Martins wrote:
>>>
>>> The option I am speaking about is the "HTTP proxy" as in the version
>>> 1.4:
>>>
>>> http://www.pgadmin.org/docs/1.4/options-tab1.html
>>>
>>
>> I wasn't aware of such option. It for sure doesn't exist anymore.
>>
>> Anyway, AFAIUI, it isn't an option to connect to a PostgreSQL server
>> through a HTTP server. It's a HTTP proxy if you need to get the help on
>> a web server and need to get through an HTTP proxy to access the web.
>>
>> Dave, correct me if I'm wrong. I wasn't there at that time.
>
> Oh, that sort of proxy :-).
>
> Apparently I removed it here:
> http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=pgadmin3.git;a=commit;h=0937dc7357c9940fe0fd4bd34c5154eb70db24f3
>
> I can't find any references about why it was removed as part of that
> commit though - I suspect it was because we figured no one needed it
> (and as this is the first complaint I've heard after 5 years, I guess
> statistically that was pretty much correct).
The switch from using an internal webbrowser to loading the system
default one moved the proxy responsibility to the browser, I would
guess?
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