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Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes:

 > Currently Guix uses Guile=E2=80=99s HTTP client, which doesn=E2=80=99=
t support proxies
 > (the FTP client doesn=E2=80=99t either.)  It should support it thoug=
h.
 >=20
 > It shouldn=E2=80=99t be too difficult to implement, but I=E2=80=99m =
not too familiar
 > with all that, so I=E2=80=99d 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.