I found that liferea fails to connect to the proxy if its own proxy settings are to be used. With 'Auto Detect' it picked up the gnome settings and worked fine. However, I do not need to authenticate with my proxy so that could be another issue.
-- [Karmic] Liferea doesn't update feeds behind a proxy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/461810 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs