[Qgis-developer] proxys, WMS and plugin installer

[Carson Farmer]

Marco et al,

I am pleased to announce that I am behind an http proxy (not actually 
pleased about that part), and all works fantastically! Both the plugin 
installer and the wms provider work great. I'll test a bit more later.

Cheers,

Carson
> Hi all,
>
> Thanks for your feedback. I think Borys is right and the plugin installer 
> should pick up the proxy type from the settings. Therefore I applied the patch 
> in r9939 for testing. 
>
> I don't have the 'pleasure' to work behind a proxy so I cannot test myself. 
> Andreas, Barry, Carson, Stephan, could you test r9939 with your proxy 
> configurations at work?
>
>   
>> But there is also WFS remaining (and what with postgis?)
>>     
>
> True, WFS is using QHttp directly for GetFeature requests and also needs to 
> set proxy settings. Also I'm developing an SOS client that would also need to 
> do that. It seems reasonable to have a method applyProxySettings(QHttp) that 
> can be used by all those classes. For postgis there is probably a libpq 
> specific way of proxy setting, though I did not check the documentation yet.
>
>   
>> PS: It would be good to have a noproxy-entry, because some clients complain
>> that they cannot use internal and external WMS in one QGIS-Session.
>>     
>
> Yes, I agree it would be handy to specify a set of urls in option dialog for 
> that. Then every URL starting with such a string will not use a proxy in its 
> QHttp object (that is a further argument against setting proxy at application 
> level).
>
> Regards,
> Marco 
>
>
>
> Am Mittwoch 07 Januar 2009 07:36:09 schrieb Stephan Holl:
>   
>> Hi Marco,
>>
>> glad that you roled up the proxy-topic again :-)
>>
>> We have several problems with it and I tried to track this down to some
>> point but got lost in QT-stuff. One of my collegues told me that QT uses
>> the CONNECT-method which at least fails on our proxy-server.
>>
>> Apart from that, using QT 4.2.x worked though. I dont have a QT4.2.x-build
>> at hand so I cannot really test against current qgis-trunk.
>>
>> Am Dienstag, 6. Januar 2009 09:48:48 schrieb Marco Hugentobler:
>>     
>>> Hi QGIS devs
>>>
>>> I'm a bit lost in the tickets and discussions about proxys. What is the
>>> current state of proxy handling?
>>>
>>> There is patch #1422 that adds the possibility to choose proxy type for
>>> plugin installer (but not WMS). In the ticket it says 'I have not made
>>> any new changes to the plugin installer, as Borys has already applied the
>>> above fix, plus some excellent extras!'. Does that mean that the patch
>>> can be closed?
>>>
>>> I also have a proxy patch (attached) which lets the user select proxy
>>> type and sets it to QgsHttpTransaction (for WMS). I tested together with
>>> Andreas and it seems that setting the proxy and proxy type at application
>>> level does not work. Therefore the patch sets the proxy configuration to
>>> the QHttp object. Do other proxy users/developers have the same
>>> experience? Because I don't see a reason why the application level proxy
>>> does not work.
>>>
>>> Maybe we need a mix of both patches such that proxy works with WMS and
>>> plugin installer?
>>>
>>> Also I think we need a set of proxy testers to try both patches with
>>> different proxy types and report what works/ does not work with patch
>>> #1422 and attached patch. Who would be available?
>>>       
>> I could give it a go to test. Let me know which revision-number is
>> testable.
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> 	Stephan
>>
>> PS: It would be good to have a noproxy-entry, because some clients complain
>> that they cannot use internal and external WMS in one QGIS-Session.
>>     
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