I've never used the "Manual proxy configuration", but I have set "Automatic proxy configuration". This is what my $http_proxy is set to:
$ echo $http_proxy http://:8080/ Which is clearly wrong. ** Changed in: control-center (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed -- $http_proxy being set incorrectly by Network Proxy https://launchpad.net/bugs/48294 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs