CentOS - Jun 2014 - Google chrome vs network settings proxy?

I started using chrome on the RHEL7 beta after some firefox hangs -
but maybe this behavior is generic.     I have the system 'network
settings/network proxy' set to use squid on another host for
connections out of the private range we use.   This proxy requires
authentication so I can always tell the first time a browser uses it.
 However, I can start a chrome connection to gmail and it just goes
direct (which happens to work, I just prefer the proxy which will use
a different outbound route).   If I go to any non-google site, it uses
the proxy and will pop up the expected authentication dialog on the
first connection.   Does anyone know (a) why it bypasses the proxy
when going to a google site, (b) why it doesn't have its own internal
proxy settings, or (c) how to fix it?

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   Les Mikesell
      lesmikesell at gmail.com

On 06/11/2014 08:10 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> I started using chrome on the RHEL7 beta after some firefox hangs -
> but maybe this behavior is generic.     I have the system 'network
> settings/network proxy' set to use squid on another host for
> connections out of the private range we use.   This proxy requires
> authentication so I can always tell the first time a browser uses it.
>   However, I can start a chrome connection to gmail and it just goes
> direct (which happens to work, I just prefer the proxy which will use
> a different outbound route).   If I go to any non-google site, it uses
> the proxy and will pop up the expected authentication dialog on the
> first connection.   Does anyone know (a) why it bypasses the proxy
> when going to a google site, (b) why it doesn't have its own internal
> proxy settings, or (c) how to fix it?
>
As far as I understood, Chrome is in tight connection with Google 
services, possibly hard-coded into it. But to be fair, I only used it 
occasionally when I need to fix something gone wrong with it. I prefer 
Firefox.

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Ljubomir Ljubojevic
(Love is in the Air)
PL Computers
Serbia, Europe

StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant

On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>
wrote:
>  However, I can start a chrome connection to gmail and it just goes
> direct (which happens to work, I just prefer the proxy which will use
> a different outbound route).   If I go to any non-google site, it uses
> the proxy and will pop up the expected authentication dialog on the
> first connection.   Does anyone know (a) why it bypasses the proxy
> when going to a google site, (b) why it doesn't have its own internal
> proxy settings, or (c) how to fix it?
>
Did you configure the proxy for HTTPS? Gmail uses HTTPS exclusively these
days, the certificate is pinned (hard coded) in Chrome to prevent spoofing,
maybe the protocol is too. Time for 'tcpdump'?


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