From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konrad Hinsen Subject: Re: Living with a proxy Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 13:14:05 +0200 Message-ID: <20912.28413.820758.544774@Konrad-Hinsens-MacBook-Pro.local> References: <20911.26346.165530.348092@Konrad-Hinsens-MacBook-Pro.local> <87mwr4usig.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56213) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UkY91-0003Cn-JK for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 07:14:20 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UkY8w-0001ix-0m for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 07:14:15 -0400 Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:37079) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UkY8v-0001ih-PA for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 07:14:09 -0400 Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.44]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C09C202E8 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 2013 07:14:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Konrad-Hinsens-MacBook-Pro.local (unknown [194.57.158.234]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 85D04C8014F for ; Thu, 6 Jun 2013 07:14:08 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87mwr4usig.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: bug-guix@gnu.org 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.