koji client does not work through proxy

[Manuel Wolfshant]

  On 09/17/2010 09:37 AM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le mardi 14 septembre 2010 à 15:13 +0300, Manuel Wolfshant a écrit :
>> On 09/14/2010 12:18 AM, Mike McGrath wrote:
>>> You'll need at least some open ports.  443 and 80 I think are the only
>>> ones required for koji builds.
>> and exactly those are the ones proxied almost everywhere where a
>> mandatory proxy is in use. 80 at least.
> Fedora proxy configuring is in such a sad state it's often better to
> forget about configuring them altoguether and change the routing at
> iptables level
sadly, you are 100% correct, but....

> *nat
> :PREROUTING ACCEPT [0:0]
> :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
> :POSTROUTING ACCEPT [0:0]
> -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
> -A OUTPUT -m owner ! --gid-owner apache ! -p tcp --dport http -j
> REDIRECT --to-port 8081
>
> (here the proxy which use is forced is local mod_proxy ran by apache,
> adapt to your situation)
... I dare you to do that while being a humble student among another 
2000+ in a medium-or-large-size university ( and without having "good 
relations" with the upper management or the BOFH on call). Not to 
mention enterprise level environments.