Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-buildservice (216 mails)

[John Beranek <john@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 25/03/10 17:24, John Beranek wrote:
> On 25/03/10 17:13, Michael Schroeder wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 04:59:12PM +0000, John Beranek wrote:
> > > On 25/03/10 16:45, Marcus Hüwe wrote:
> > > > On 2010-03-24 14:33:01 +0100, Christian wrote:
> > > > > I want to use the 'remoturl' feature. (added PRJ openSUSE.org)
> > > > > And my local obs is not able to connect to 'api.opensuse.org' directly.
> > > > > Access to internet is only allowed via proxy (e.g. squid)
> > > > >
> > > > > So is there a possibility to tell obs to use a '$http_proxy' ?
> > > > I just wrote a small patch which adds basic http proxy support to the
> > > > backend. To enable it add 'our $proxy = "http://<ip>:<port>";' to the
> > > > BSConfig.pm file. Afterwards all remoteurl requests will be sent to
> > > > proxy.
> > > > The current implementation doesn't support proxy-authorization yet
> > > > but it should be trivial to implement it (before concentrating on
> > > > those details I want to know if the current code is ok:) ).
> > > >
> > > > Feedback, remarks, objections etc. are always welcome:)
> > >
> > > Why not just 'use LWP::UserAgent'?
> >
> > Because it's not event based? I.e. we can't do a big select() on
> > all file descriptors with it.
>
> OK, that does seem to be a fundamental limitation then, I'll go back to
> sleep...

The only thing from LWP that seems vaguely applicable is
Net::HTTP::NB[1] but that hardly provides much beneficial abstraction
over what you already have.

John.

[1] http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/libwww-perl-5.834/lib/Net/HTTP/NB.pm

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