[Qgis-developer] Plugin Installer

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

I added global proxy support in qgis options dialog for 0.11 - does
this not work for plugins too? In theory it should...

regards

Tim

On 7/21/08, Barry Rowlingson <b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
> 2008/7/21 Tim Sutton <tim at linfiniti.com>:
>> Hi Borys
>>
>> Great to hear the new plugin manager is ready!
>
>  I just hit a problem with the plugin manager - lack of http proxy support!
>
>  The QHttp methods used will only use a proxy if explicitly told. From
> campus all web traffic goes via a proxy, and most applications will
> look at the http_proxy environment variable and use that, but QHttp
> doesn't. You need to set it explicitly with:
>
>     proxy = QNetworkProxy(QNetworkProxy.HttpProxy, proxyHost, proxyPort)
>     qhttpObject.setProxy(proxy)
>
> It's a bit more complicated if you have an authenticating proxy that
> needs a username and password, of course.
>
>  I wonder if it would be better dealt with in the Qgis core, so that
> individual plugins didn't have to deal with it. It's also complicated
> by cross-platform issues - the documentation for python's built-in
> urllib web-fetcher says it can get proxy info from the Windows
> registry or Mac's Internet Settings. Actually there's a lot of useful
> stuff in urllib relating to proxies...
>
>  So really it's something that ought to be in Qt... Weird that it
> isn't.  Or have I totally missed something?
>
> Barry
>


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