Comment 7 for bug 186920

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David Cournapeau (david-ar) wrote : Re: [Bug 186920] Re: bzr launchpad does not handle proxy when used for name resolution

John A Meinel wrote:
> We are using the standard system calls for resolving host names. So we
> would need something like this to work:
>
> python -c "import socket; socket.gethostbyname('www.google.com')"
>

This does not work, indeed.

> I would assume that this would be some sort of machine configuration,
> not something that we would handle specially in our program.
>
I don't agree it is a configuration problem. All software work fine on
my machine, from wget to firefox; bzr works fine, when http protocol is
used. I think it is more linked to a problematic use of http proxy in
bzr for some protocols (bzr:// and lp:// do not work ATM)

cheers,

David