Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] git.eclass / subversion.eclass support for http proxy

[Timothy Redaelli]

On Monday 23 March 2009 12:45:55 Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Timothy Redaelli <drizzt@g.o> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Some repositories has the git (or svn) and http support. I saw that we
> > choose the git/svn one (it's faster i know, but it does not works under
> > proxy).
> >
> > I propose a E{GIT,SVN}_REPO_HTTP_URI (or similar) variable that uses the
> > http variant when the global use is set (or we can use the http_proxy env
> > variable).
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> Here's what I did:
>
> Install net-misc/connect
> Save the script below and do `export GIT_PROXY_COMMAND=/path/to/script`
> set http_proxy, and everything works dandy.
>
> Maybe this can be done inside the eclass if http_proxy is set? :)
>
> ----
>
> proxy=${http_proxy#http://}
> host=${proxy##*@}
> auth=${proxy%@*}
> if test "${auth}" != "${proxy}"; then
>     export HTTP_PROXY_USER=${auth%%:*}
>     export HTTP_PROXY_PASSWORD=${auth##*:}
> fi
> connect -H ${host} $1 $2

Some environments has squid with CONNECT filtered only to a few known ports :(

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Timothy `Drizzt` Redaelli
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