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Re: Living with a proxy
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Konrad Hinsen |
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Re: Living with a proxy |
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Thu, 6 Jun 2013 13:14:05 +0200 |
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.