[Bug 226640] [NEW] Hardy: konqueror broken with offline caching proxies (e.g. polipo, wwwoffle)

[Alan Jenkins]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: kdebase

This is tangentially related to KDE bug 98405 - there is no action to
switch between offline and online browsing modes.

However, my problem is not that I can't switch to offline mode when I
need to.  It's that when I remove the network cable and NetworkManager
goes into disconnected mode etc, Konqueror seems to go into a NON USER
VISIBLE offline mode.

I.e. in Konqueror settings it says it's not in offline mode, and it's
using my personal offline caching proxy, polipo.  But actually if I try
to visit a site which is in my polipo cache, I get a Konqueror error
message "Could not connect to host", which should NEVER happen when a
proxy is configured - so I think it gives up because it knows it's
offline, when really it has a cache.

This is new in Hardy; it worked fine in Gutsy and it really sucks.  (It
means I have to use firefox).  I suspect this might be a Ubuntu specific
patch, which is why I'm reporting it here.

** Affects: kdebase (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Hardy: konqueror broken with offline caching proxies (e.g. polipo, wwwoffle)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/226640
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