Why the "catch" isn't documented anywhere? There's another catch here : If the proxy setting needs to be of the same type as the URL, how exactly am I supposed to know in advance when querying the information?
As you can imagine, the /etc/apt/souces.list.d is filed with mixed content such as HTTP and HTTPS so how can I sort this out? I've made a quick test and there's nothing in the environment nor arguments passed to "app" that would help make the decision. Anyway, given the info you provide, even if I decide to go full HTTPS on the proxy, this would break the classic HTTP URLs. This sounds like a big design mistake here... this forces people to HARDCODE things in configuration which really bad design :-( What's so harmful in using an HTTP proxy to fetch data from an HTTPS URL? That's just a proxy to get Internet access, nothing more, because depending on the environment, you may have (or not) direct Internet access, hence the use of Proxy-Auto-Detect. You really need to reconsider this! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1656352 Title: apt does not honor Proxy-Auto-Detect for HTTPS URLs Status in apt package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: apt(-get) does not honor Proxy-Auto-Detect configuration in any way for HTTPS URLs. ex: vi /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99-proxy-auto-detect Acquire::http:Proxy-Auto-Detect "/path/to/app"; "app" performs some actions and output the name of the proxy server according to some internal rules, in the form "http://proxy.domain.tld:1234/"; This works perfectly for all HTTP-like "deb http://example.com/ xxx" URLs but is ignored for HTTPS URLs. Setting "Acquire::https:Proxy- Auto-Detect" or even the legacy variable name "ProxyAutoDetect" (without dashes) does not help either. This is very annoying as the very purpose of this auto-detection is to be network environment aware instead of using a hardcoded value for the proxy setting. This should be fixed. Thank you. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1656352/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
