does smart handle proxy authentication

[Martin Lubich]

On Thursday 08 December 2005 00:44, Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:
> Hi Martin,
>
> > I tried now for some time to figure out how to persuade smart ( using
> > 0.40 by the way ) to do proxy authentication. After some very cursory
> > look at the source code i stumbled across a commented block in
> > fetcher.py where urllib2 in conjunction with proxy authentication
> > would be used. The comment states that authentication requires some
> > additional implemention.
>
> This is disabled code, which should probably be removed.
> completely.  The existent code does support proxy authentication.
> You may provide the auth information in the http_proxy environment
> variable or in the equivalent http-proxy configuration option
> (using "smart config"). In both cases, with the usual http
> authentication syntax.
>
> Please, let me know if it works for you.
hi gustavo

yes that's it. Thanks a lot. now it works.

martin