smart proxy not working correctly?

[Kai Ponte]

On Tuesday 25 September 2007 16:43, Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:
> > This I believe is the way it's supposed to be. Here's the problem
> >
> > 1. set the ftp proxy with smart
> > 2. smart update succeeds if the proxy is accessible.
> > 3. smart update succeeds if the proxy server is not accessible.
>
> Thanks for clarifying it.
>
> Smart only ensures that the ftp_proxy environment variable is set by
> the time it calls pycurl to perform the job.  Can you reproduce the
> same behavior if you set the ftp_proxy variable and use curl in the
> command line?

I had no idea you could do this at all.

I didn't even know there WAS a smart proxy setting. Therefore, I've been 
unable to update my machines via SMART from behind the proxy at work.  

However, since I do not have a proxy at home, I can see this would fail.

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