From: Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net>
To: bug-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Living with a proxy
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 13:14:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20912.28413.820758.544774@Konrad-Hinsens-MacBook-Pro.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mwr4usig.fsf@gnu.org>
Ludovic Courtès writes:
> Currently Guix uses Guile’s HTTP client, which doesn’t support proxies
> (the FTP client doesn’t either.) It should support it though.
>
> It shouldn’t be too difficult to implement, but I’m not too familiar
> with all that, so I’d welcome ideas and patches. ;-)
Proxies are a big mess, so my first idea is to let someone else do the
hard work.
More concretely, I was thinking if libcurl, for which there are already
Guile bindings:
http://www.lonelycactus.com/guile-curl.html
But I can't say if the functionality of libcurl is sufficient for
all network access done by Guix.
Konrad.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-06 11:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-05 16:27 Living with a proxy Konrad Hinsen
2013-06-05 22:01 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-06-06 11:14 ` Konrad Hinsen [this message]
2013-06-06 12:54 ` Ludovic Courtès
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