[issue123] smart can't use proxy

[Zach Garner]

HTTP and HTTPS proxy support works for me with environment variables:
"http_proxy" and "HTTPS_PROXY" (note the capitalization) using Curl
with Smart. I haven't tried FTP.

On 2/19/06, Jon at Labix Tracker <tracker at labix.org> wrote:
>
> Jon <jnelson-smartpm at jamponi.net> added the comment:
>
> I installed python-pycurl and that did the trick (note that python-pycurl is
> only available from packman, it is not available from SUSE).
>
> The proxy is never contacted, I performed a tcpdump and see the request go (or
> try to go, it's blocked by the firewall) to the origin server instead of going
> through the proxy.
>
> However, IMO, requiring python-pycurl doesn't seem right - the stock python
> standard library urllib will use proxies as is - is smart not using them?
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