When the environment variable "http_proxy" is set gappletviewer should obey it. When the browser (firefox or other) the proxy setting from it should be obeyed in the plugin. Both is currently not the case. Please see http://bugs.debian.org/459558 for more details.
(In reply to Michael Koch from comment #0) > When the environment variable "http_proxy" is set gappletviewer should obey > it. > When the browser (firefox or other) the proxy setting from it should be > obeyed in the plugin. Both is currently not the case. > > Please see http://bugs.debian.org/459558 for more details. That was closed with the message: > Dear submitter, > as this package has been removed from the Debian archive unstable > we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry that we > couldn't deal with your issue properly. > The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal > can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/. So I'm going to close this similarly.