[Yum-devel] urlgrabber RFE

Michael Stenner mstenner at linux.duke.edu
Tue Jun 14 17:26:59 UTC 2005


On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 06:52:39AM -0700, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> Could we have an option to disable proxies (per repo), overriding any 
> http_proxy etc environment variables? Eg "proxy=direct" setting.
> I wouldn't need it if it wasn't for this bug:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=132477 but as it 
> is...
> 
> I have http_proxy etc defined in the environment by default so lynx, wget 
> and such work, but I *don't* want yum to go through proxies because the 
> repositories are local. I don't currently see a way to disable proxies, 
> only "not set them" in which case urllib proxy support takes over where I 
> don't want it to :-/ Sure I can patch yum locally to unset the proxy 
> environment variables to work around this but I'd rather have a cleaner 
> way to do it :)

OK.  I'll look at this.  I didn't think urllib2 did the environment
variable thing, but maybe it does.  Modern urlgrabber does not directly
use urllib, but only urllib2.  It only uses urllib for a few utility
functions like parsing urls, etc.  I need to poke around a bit.

					-Michael

P.S. Proxies are the bane of my existence.
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