No proxy support

[David D Lowe]

Version 0.2 of Epidermis does not seem to support proxies. This is a problem in environments where a proxy in the only way to access the internet.
Epidermis should try to use Gnome proxy configuration, or the http_proxy environment variable.

Should also support login/password for proxies (basic authentication).

(For proxy support in Python, see http://sebsauvage.net/python/snyppets/index.html#urllib2_proxies )

(This bug was originally reported as a blueprint by sebsauvage)

[David D Lowe (flimm)]

According to the manual pages, both urllib and urllib2 support proxies automatically, based on the http_proxy environment variable.
I do not use a proxy myself, so I'm asking sebsauvage to help us debug this problem: did you get any error messages? How did loading the repo fail? What's the output of this command:
echo $http_proxy
How did you configure your proxy?

[David A Páez (orlsend)]

I use a VPN and I don't seem to have this Problem.

[sebsauvage (sebsauvage)]

I mean: In case the http_proxy environment variable is not defined (or in case we want to use a different proxy), there is no GUI to change it. You also cannot set user/password for proxy requiring authentication).

[David D Lowe (flimm)]

Proxies as configured by gnome-network-preferences should work now. As for an additional GUI to change proxy settings, it's been specified in this blueprint: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/epidermis/+spec/epidermis-proxy-support .