[Ifeffit] horae_update and proxy servers

[mauro at rulp.org]

On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 05:47:25PM -0400, Bruce Ravel wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 May 2004 05:19 pm, Matt Newville wrote:
> > I was wondering whether the original question was really asking for
> > supporting web proxies or was simply asking for more download sites. ?
> 
> Mauro's original question was indeed about web proxies, as a followup,
> private conversation confirmed.  Using perl's LWP::UserAgent, it turns
> out to be quite easy to handle proxies in roll-your-own web client
> programs.  Mauro gave it a test for me and said it worked properly.
> 
> I then implemented your other suggestion, which was to use
> SourceForge.  Thanks, great idea!  It seems to work fine from my
> limited testing.  I was thinking of putting it on my web page so
> people could try it out for the next release.  Drop me a line if you'd
> like to try it out right now.
> 

I have checked the --proxy and --mirror options, they work fine.

M
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