AUR features not working behind proxy

[archme]

At least the AUR features within clyde do not work behind a proxy.
eg: "clyde -Ss clyde" returns nothing behind a proxy (squid)

I think best approach would be to honor the $http_proxy environment variable, like most other console apps (including pacman).

[Kiwi]

I am really not sure how to fix this as I do not really know anything about $http_proxy or how to handle it or even what it is, do you know anything more about it that would be useful to me resolving the issue?

[ijanos]

It should work fine with a proxifier program like tsocks or proxychains. I think adding proxy support should be low priority.

[mickael9]

Why not use luacurl or lua-cURL ? Curl supports SOCKS and HTTP proxies, and it honours http_proxy environment variable.

http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/lua/

[neenaoffline]

I fixed it quite crudely.
http://gist.github.com/589444

Just added two lines of code, after looking at http://w3.impa.br/~diego/software/luasocket/http.html

I'm pretty sure there is a better way to do it. (with just one line.)

[mickael9]

Unfortunately, luasocket doesn't support proxy authentification.

[neenaoffline]

Doesn't this work?
"http://user:password@host:port"?

[mickael9]

The user and password part of the proxy url is ignored by luasocket

[juster]

I have a branch that uses lua-cURL that I can merge into master. I will just have to coordinate things so that the deps for the AUR package are changed.

Could anyone help me test out the lua-cURL branch proxy stuff? I don't have a proxy to try it out with.

[juster]

Oops I clicked the wrong button and closed this. Heh. Reopened it.

[mickael9]

I can test it.

Where can I find it?

[juster]

Ok I think I got it working. Here are instructions to install the lua-curl branch.

If you don't have the git repository clone already, cd to a directory where you want th e clyde repo dir contained and type:

git clone git://github.com/Kiwi/clyde.git
cd clyde

edit: If you already have the clyde repository checked out type this in the repo dir instead:

git pull

Now from the repository's directory, type:

git checkout lua-curl
makepkg

Then install the package:

sudo pacman -U clyde-0.03.07-1.i686.pkg.tar.xz

Or whatever the package filename happens to be.

[mickael9]

Seems to work fine

[juster]

Cool thanks.

[petelewis]

Hi - any chance this could be ported to the >3.5 version? Also, any plans for it to be merged?

[juster]

No it doesn't look promising.