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Package: libxml2-utils
Version: 2.6.11-3
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Hello,

My computer is behind a web proxy and a firewall and I can't tell
xmllint to use the proxy. xmllint tries (and fails) a direct connection
when I use --dtdvalid http://website/file.dtd.

It would be great if xmllint could use $http_proxy (like wget, lynx and
some other programs) to know if a proxy should be used.

A workaround is to fetch the DTD using wget and use a local URL in
xmllint (--dtdvalid file.dtd).

Regards,

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From: [email protected]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 10:57:19PM +0200, Ludovic Rousseau wrote:

Package: libxml2-utils
Version: 2.6.11-3
Severity: wishlist

Hello,

My computer is behind a web proxy and a firewall and I can't tell
xmllint to use the proxy. xmllint tries (and fails) a direct connection
when I use --dtdvalid http://website/file.dtd.

I see no reason by a brief look into the code as to why it wouldn't use
proxy.

It would be great if xmllint could use $http_proxy (like wget, lynx and
some other programs) to know if a proxy should be used.

Is the variable $no_proxy also set on your system ? If this is the case,
unset it (setting it disables totally proxy usage ; note that this will
change in next upstream)

Mike


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Le Wednesday 18 August 2004 � 10:18:27, Mike Hommey a �crit:

Is the variable $no_proxy also set on your system ? If this is the case, unset it (setting it disables totally proxy usage ; note that this will change in next upstream)

Exact. it works if no_proxy is not defined.

The bug should be retitled to something like:
"proxy is completely disabled if no_proxy is defined"
or
"no_proxy environment variable is not correctly honored"

See [1] to know how no_proxy should be used. But I imagine it will be
corrected with the next upstream release.

Maybe upstream author could add in the manpage that $http_proxy is used
when defined.

Thanks,

[1] http://www.w3.org/Daemon/User/Proxies/ProxyClients.html

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