[Sugar-devel] [PATCH sugar] sugar-session: export manual Gnome proxy settings as $http_proxy

[Jerry Vonau]

On 26 January 2012 12:01, Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de> wrote:

> On 01/24/2012 10:31 PM, Sascha Silbe wrote:
>
>> From: Jerry Vonau<jvonau at shaw.ca>
>>
>> Some applications and tools and even some parts of Sugar will use the
>> http_proxy environment variable if set, but don't use the Gnome (GConf)
>> proxy
>> settings.
>>
>> After changing the GConf proxy settings, Sugar needs to be restarted for
>> the
>> http_proxy environment variable to be updated.
>>
>> [factored out into separate function; some clean-ups; added description]
>> Signed-off-by: Sascha Silbe<silbe at activitycentral.**com<silbe at activitycentral.com>
>> >
>> ---
>>  bin/sugar-session |   26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  1 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/bin/sugar-session b/bin/sugar-session
>> index ee0048d..7eaa8f1 100755
>> --- a/bin/sugar-session
>> +++ b/bin/sugar-session
>> @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
>>  # Copyright (C) 2006, Red Hat, Inc.
>>  # Copyright (C) 2009, One Laptop Per Child Association Inc
>>  # Copyright (C) 2010, Plan Ceibal<comunidad at plan.ceibal.**edu.uy<comunidad at plan.ceibal.edu.uy>
>> >
>> +# Copyright (C) 2011, OLPC-AU.
>>  #
>>  # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
>>  # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
>> @@ -211,6 +212,30 @@ def setup_accessibility_cb():
>>      accessibility_manager = accessibility.**AccessibilityManager()
>>      accessibility_manager.setup_**accessibility()
>>
>> +
>> +def export_proxy_settings():
>> +    """Export manual proxy settings from GConf as environment variables
>> +
>> +    Some applications and tools and even some parts of Sugar will use
>> +    the http_proxy environment variable if set, but don't use the Gnome
>> +    (GConf) proxy settings.
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> can you give a few examples which ones are using which method? My fist hit
> was wget using the env variable [1]. More light on that welcome.
>
> Regards,
>   Simon
>
> [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/html_node/Proxies.html
>

Think this fixes the proxy issue for all python based programs. This patch
allows OLPC's sugar-update-control to work from behind proxies, which we
have working in the field with this patch.

Jerry
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