Re: Smolt from behind a proxy (Re: Smolt: firsboot revisited)
On 14.02.2007 20:47, Mike McGrath wrote:
Leszek Matok wrote:
> Dnia 14-02-2007, śro o godzinie 19:01 +0100, David Nielsen napisał(a):
>> Smolt is doubleplus good, I vote yes.
> I don't know nice 1984-ish word for "not so good", but:
> Can Smolt work from behind a proxy server, faking the User-Agent?
> Because, you know, I've tried to register some machines from a real
> production environment, with no luck. setenv http_proxy doesn't work,
> probably because our proxy rejects most of UA-s (or because Smolt
> doesn't honor http_proxy at all).
This is a must, I'll contact you as soon as its ready.
Side note: Not that it helps much in the firstboot case -- as a normal
user who does a normal install you afaik are not able to configure the
proxy before firstboot or while in it. (¹)
CU
thl
(¹) that why you also can't use external repos in anaconda if your
machine live in a network that forces the use of a proxy (yes, I have
machines in such networks -- that sucks). Reminder for those that are
interested: proxy support for anaconda RFE is #125917