Surface proxy errors

[willscott]

Issue by willscott from Fri Oct 18 19:25:17 2013
Originally opened as https://github.com/UWNetworksLab/UProxy/issues/103

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chrome surfaces errors with requests to the set up proxy off of something like chrome.proxy.onError.addEventListener. If the proxy is a uproxy-configured proxy, we should be listening for such errors to see if something is up / change the icon / suggest other peers / stopping / etc.

[scouttle]

It sounds like this is Chrome-specific; is there a parallel in Firefox that should be plumbed up as well?

[willscott]

Presumably yes.
It won't be part of the same interface though, and will instead have to do with looking at general request timeouts / error, probably.

For future reference, firefox proxy interface example usage is here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10605183/how-to-change-firefox-proxy-settings-using-xpcom

[dborkan]

Done, although there are some issues with this currently being looked at in https://github.com/uProxy/uproxy/issues?q=is%3Aopen+author%3Alucyhe