Prevent gweather from disclosing customized location
When one adds a custom location in the GNOME Clock applet, and "Set"’s it, a request for weather information is made to weather.noaa.gov, that presumably discloses the custom location chosen by the user.
Setting the /apps/gweather/prefs/auto_update
GConf key to false does
not help.
A workaround that was suggested to us is to add weather.noaa.gov
to
the "Ignore Host" list in the GNOME Network Proxy preferences:
without a proxy configured, these requests cannot go out. At first
glance, it looks a bit hackish, and it would be nicer to disable this
feature in a way that works even if the hostname in use changes some
day, but in last resort, we might end up doing that.
We should research a (probably GConf -based) way to disable that feature.
Next thing to do:
- If we stop using the GNOME clock applet (#6284), verify this fixes this issue, and be done with it.
- test the
/schemas/apps/clock_applet/prefs/show_weather
and/schemas/apps/clock_applet/prefs/show_temperature
GConf options.
Note that the connection is apparently done by gnome-panel
, through
the configured HTTP proxy (Polipo). It ignores SOCKS proxy settings.
Attachments
Related issues
- Related to #6284
- Related to #7949 (closed)
Original created by @tails on 5306 (Redmine)