HTTP Proxy Settings missing

[Volkan Kurt]

I and many of my friends are behind a corporate proxy.

We handle proxy support thru environment variables and a special shortcut.

It would be much better if this settings were available at the settings of Calibre instead of relying upon the environment variables.

I am using Windows. Calibre version 0.8.2.9.

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

Having to set proxy variables for individual applications is a pain. Instead
calibre reads system settings automatically. In fact, on linux most
application rely on environment variables for proxy config. As such I have no
interest in implementing a separate proxy setting for calibre.

 status wontfix

[Volkan Kurt (volwol)]

So could you make this read Windows proxy settings at least? Or is there a way we could do it?

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

It does read windows proxy settings. It uses the same settings as IE

[Volkan Kurt (volwol)]

Oh then. This is a completely different matter then..

I can browse the internet using my proxy settings with Internet Explorer. However, Calibre cannot.

We use an autoconfig script:
http://example.com:8080/array.dll?Get.Routing.Script

Since this doesn't work, I tried using the direct link to the proxy, which is example.org:8080

I even tried the ip address of it. It still doesn't work (192.168.1.1:8080)

So could you please change this to a bug?

[Volkan Kurt (volwol)]

By the way, if i set the environment variable like http://192.168.1.1:8080 and launch the code from that command prompt, the connection is established with no problem.

[Volkan Kurt (volwol)]

Sorry, for multiple posts. I cannot edit messages once I send. This is the only way calibre works with proxy in my case:

I create a shortcut with the following:

C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /C set HTTP_PROXY=http://192.168.1.1:8080 & C:\Progra~1\Calibre2\calibre.exe

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

calibre doesn't support auto config scripts, set it to

http://192.181.1.1:8000 (or whatever) note that the http:// is important, and
then restart calibre.

[Volkan Kurt (volwol)]

Thanks for the info. This works now.

So if we want to have auto-config support, could we build code and share for that?

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

Sure, I am always happy to get a patch. Note however, that there is no
standardisation in the format of auto-config proxy scripts, so your solution
would have to be considerably complex to deal with all the special cases.