[racket] PLaneT and proxies

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you on this (and sorry for the
upcoming not so helpful reply. ....)

I'm not really familiar with proxy setups and how to simulate them,
but if you wanted to submit a patch that worked for you, I'm pretty
sure that I could verify/adjust enough of it to be confident that it
wouldn't break others stuff and I'd put it in....

Robby

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 4:02 AM, Norman Gray <norman at astro.gla.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Greetings.
>
> PLaneT appears to have some difficulties with HTTP caches.
>
> When I require a PLaneT package, I get an error:
>
> csv2skos.rkt:3:9: require: PLaneT could not download the requested package: Internal error (unknown HTTP response code 403) in: (planet neil/csv:1:6/csv)
>
> This is probably due to the presence of the campus-wide HTTP cache (long may its bits rot).  Installing the package manually does work, but is a bit of a fuss (that's using
>
> % curl `planet url neil csv.plt 1 6` >csv.plt
> % planet fileinject neil csv.plt 1 6
>
> ...for the archive's reference), and this has cropped up on 'this' list before <http://lists.racket-lang.org/users/archive/2009-November/036847.html>, but the resolution there was simply 'yes, this is a proxy problem'.
>
> So: herewith the obvious feature request.  Would it be feasible or reasonable for racket to respect the conventional $http_proxy environment variable (on Unix boxes, obviously, but I imagine there's a windows alternative)?  Something along the lines of net/url's (current-proxy-servers (parse-proxy-string (getenv "http_proxy"))) would appear to be sufficient.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Norman
>
>
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