Bug#305453: approx: would like to see outbound HTTP proxy support

2005-04-22 Thread Charles Lepple
Eric Cooper said: > Can you try setting the http_proxy environment variable before > starting approx and seeing if that works? I'll try to add more > explicit support via approx.conf as well. That worked-- I set it in /etc/init.d/approx. (I'm not sure why I was thinking that the daemon wouldn't g

Bug#305453: approx: would like to see outbound HTTP proxy support

2005-04-21 Thread Eric Cooper
> Since approx uses libcurl as the backend, would it be possible to expose > some of libcurl's proxy settings in approx.conf? According to the libcurl documentation, "libcurl respects the environment variables http_proxy, ftp_proxy, all_proxy etc, if any of those is set." So it may work already .

Bug#305453: approx: would like to see outbound HTTP proxy support

2005-04-19 Thread Charles Lepple
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 se