Package: approx Version: 1.09 Severity: wishlist One feature that apt-proxy has that is useful in corporate networks is the ability to connect to a HTTP proxy server to retrieve files (when a direct HTTP connection is prohibited by a firewall).
Granted, approx is a proxy itself, and this might seem redundant in the presence of a regular HTTP proxy, but not all HTTP proxy setups are smart enough to cache .deb files, and in those cases, having apt-proxy connect to a HTTP proxy is very handy. Since approx uses libcurl as the backend, would it be possible to expose some of libcurl's proxy settings in approx.conf? I'll volunteer to test this functionality if needed. I can test packages from experimental, or even try to build from source (but I currently know next to nothing about ocaml). -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-powerpc Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages approx depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-21 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libcurl3 7.13.2-2 Multi-protocol file transfer libra ii libidn11 0.5.13-1.0 GNU libidn library, implementation ii libpcre3 5.0-1 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi ii libssl0.9.7 0.9.7e-3 SSL shared libraries ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4 compression library - runtime -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
