On 22 January 2016 at 13:31, Tobias Mueller <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 09:41:35AM +0530, Jay Aurabind wrote: >> Thank you Tobias. This looks like a complex hack. > Yep. It's 2016 already. We haven't mastered network proxies yet. > And it's getting worse when they MITM you. > Even worse, when they don't speak a weird TLS dialect. > But it's getting better. The number of places you need to put the proxy > information is getting lower... > >> I would like to put the line 'exec socat..' inside an 'if' so that it >> is executed only if I have http_proxy or allies exported already. >> Could also please tell me what needs to the corresponding line in the >> else part? > It's a bash script. So you can try to make use of it's facilities. > I think 'test -z "${http_proxy}"' could work, but I'm but my bash-fu is weak. > > Tell us your results! We should expect more people behind (corporate) proxies > and we should enable them to hack on GNOME.
Yep, I'll give it a try this weekend, and share the results. Thanks! > > HTH, > Tobi -- Thanks and Regards, Aurabindo J _______________________________________________ gnome-love mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-love
