Authenticated Proxy support

Martin Pool martinpool at gmail.com
Thu Sep 1 06:09:11 BST 2005


On 9/1/05, Dhruva Krishnamurthy (RBIN/EDI3) *
<Dhruva.Krishnamurthy at in.bosch.com> wrote:

>         I have faced big problems in trying to contribute to FSF/GNU
> projects (Emacs) as the version control they use (CVS/GNU Arch) does not
> support accessing remote repositories through authenticated proxy servers. I
> was wondering if Bazaar-NG has overcome this limitation. 

Hi Dhruva,

It looks like the urlgrabber module used by bzr will already support
proxy authentication, if you just set the environment variable
http_proxy=http://user:pass@proxy/

Please test this and let us know if it works OK.

-- 
Martin




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