HTTP "via" for HTTP Proxy not working (0.5.0)

[robertjpayne]

I'm using Ruby 2.0.0 and HTTP 0.5.0 and using this tiny little example:

require 'http'
response = HTTP.via('192.168.1.1513', 8888).get("http://www.google.co.nz").response
puts response.body

The request goes through just fine but in reality I have no HTTP proxy sitting on that address or port. I've tried it with my real web debugger address/port as well but it still goes through.

Is there a special way to enable proxies? I should note I do have Celluloid/IO installed on my machine if it makes any difference.

[robertjpayne]

Further to the point the specs are also broken because they do nothing to validate the request was actually sent through the proxy server and not delivered directly to the end server.

The spec's proxy server should likely tag the request with a header and/or piece of content in the body and have the spec validate that was added to the response to ensure it actually hits the proxy server, the proxy server.

[tarcieri]

I wouldn't be surprised if the proxy stuff is broken ;)

@ezkl interested in taking a look at this?

[LeeroyDownUnder]

+1 Just noticed. Requests were working great on an agent with .via, then I noticed the proxy was empty.

[tarcieri]

We should probably 1) remove this feature from future releases since it's broken or 2) actually fix it!

@ezkl any interest in actually fixing it?