Re: yum from cron setting http_proxy

[Enrico Scholz <enrico scholz informatik tu-chemnitz de>]

skvidal phy duke edu (seth vidal) writes:

>> But be warned; yum's proxy support is not complete as it does not
>> support $no_proxy. Seems to be a general problem: the thing which is
>> called "webbrowser" in Gnome2 does not have this either. :(
>
> s/yum/python's/
>
> http_proxy is not a function of yum it is done via urllib in python.

I know; every python application will have to implement its own methods
for proxy-handling. A major flaw in the python HTTP classes.

The missing GSSAPI/SPNEGO support is another flaw... ;)



Enrico