On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 12:40:37PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Just knocking out a minimal patch.  I'm looking at cabal-install's
> Hackage/HttpUtils.hs.  It seems like there is a whole module's worth
> of work just to get proxy server support.  Since bug reporting is the
> only place we use fetchUrl (according to grep), I think we can get
> away with just failing.

We also use HTTP if neither libcurl or libwww is available, I
believe.  Still, better to fail with an error message than to just
fail, I suppose.  Applied.

David

> Tue Sep 23 13:35:39 BST 2008  Eric Kow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>   * HTTP: detect proxy server (failing if we want one)
>   The HTTP package has proxy server support, but putting it to use seems
>   to be complicated.  Since fetchUrl seems to be used only in optional
>   situations, it seems safe to just return an error message (as opposed
>   to waiting around for a timeout).
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