working with launchpad behind an authenticating proxy
Vincent Ladeuil
vila+bzr at canonical.com
Wed Apr 11 12:58:11 UTC 2012
>>>>> Denys Duchier <denys.duchier at univ-orleans.fr> writes:
> at the university, my students must use a proxy for all http/https
> connexions (however, I managed to put in place a forwarding gateway for
> ssh connexions to launchpad.net).
> the proxy is now "authenticating", which means that they need to
> provide a username and password for ALL connexions to the proxy.
I feel your pain.
>
> since lp: urls need xmlrpc, some bzr commands require them to
> enter username and password several times,
There should be only two root causes for asking login/pass *several*
times for the same command:
- code that don't use our http client implementations, I guess this
comes from checking the branch packaging which is controlled by the
'launchpad.packaging_verbosity' config option. If this is the case,
setting it to 'off' should avoid the issue.
- code that doesn't re-use an existing connection. No workaround for
that, if you
> and working with bzr just becomes too bothersome. To make things
> worse, their username is their email address at university (yes,
> WITH an @ inside which doesn't work with the
> <user>:<password>@<host>:<port> syntax).
> Is there a way to configure the proxy username and password in
> authentication.conf or something?
Yes, see
http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/bzr.2.5/en/user-reference/authentication-help.html
You should define a section specific to the proxy.
Vincent
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