comparison src/proxy.c @ 7652:ac6b2b3a9a1f

[gaim-migrate @ 8296] Bj?rn Voigt (bjoernv) writes: " I found a small problem in Gaim's proxy settings. There is an option "Use Environmental Settings". This option does not work as expected. Gaim reads the environment variables http_proxy (or HTTP_PROXY or HTTPPROXY) and http_proxy_port (or HTTP_PROXY_PORT or HTTPPROXYPORT) and variables for proxy user and proxy password. Gaim expects the following format: export http_proxy=your.proxy.server export http_proxy_port=8080 As far as I know this is a unusual format. Probably there is no standard document, which describes the correct format of proxy variables, but browsers like Konqueror, Amaya, Lynx and others use a pseudo standard format: export http_proxy="http://your.proxy.server:8080/" The port number defaults to 80. The variable http_proxy_port is unknown. The proxy variable format is described in some W3C pages, for instance: http://www.w3.org/Daemon/User/Proxies/ProxyClients.html http://www.w3.org/Library/User/Using/Proxy.html http://www.w3.org/Amaya/User/Proxy.html Solution -------- My patch fixes the proxy environment variable parsing in src/proxy.c:1626: gaim_proxy_connect(). The patch removes http_proxy_port and uses gaim_url_parse() from src/util.c to parse the http_proxy variable. Remaining problems ------------------ If a user has adjusted his proxy settings to Gaim's old proxy variable format, he gets an error. I don't think, that this is a big problem, as not much users set their proxy variables only for one program (old proxy variables where incompatible with browsers like Lynx, Konqueror, ...). Gaim still doesn't look at the no_proxy variable. This variables defines hosts and domains, which should be connected directly: export no_proxy="cern.ch,ncsa.uiuc.edu,some.host:8080" For example, one user may want to connect to Yahoo! over a proxy and to an internal Jabber server without a proxy. But the user can define individual proxy variables for each account." he continues: "Nathan Walp <faceprint@faceprint.com> wrote: > Why not have your patch check to see if the http_proxy var starts with > "http://", and if so, parse it, otherwise fall back on the old behavior. Ok, the function gaim_url_parse() automatically detects hostnames and port numbers, if the http_proxy URL does not start with http://. My new patch also checks for http_proxy_port. Now my patch (file proxy2.patch) is fully backward compatible and tested." given how rarely the current proxy code works, i don't see how this could possibly make things worse, so i'm taking a chance since it compiles. someone please test this. committer: Tailor Script <tailor@pidgin.im>
author Luke Schierer <lschiere@pidgin.im>
date Sat, 29 Nov 2003 03:46:24 +0000
parents 08ce2a94d9c7
children 99ffabc6ce73
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1650 1650
1651 if (gaim_proxy_info_get_type(phb->gpi) == GAIM_PROXY_USE_ENVVAR) { 1651 if (gaim_proxy_info_get_type(phb->gpi) == GAIM_PROXY_USE_ENVVAR) {
1652 if ((tmp = g_getenv("HTTP_PROXY")) != NULL || 1652 if ((tmp = g_getenv("HTTP_PROXY")) != NULL ||
1653 (tmp = g_getenv("http_proxy")) != NULL || 1653 (tmp = g_getenv("http_proxy")) != NULL ||
1654 (tmp= g_getenv("HTTPPROXY")) != NULL) { 1654 (tmp= g_getenv("HTTPPROXY")) != NULL) {
1655 connecthost = tmp; 1655 char *proxyhost,*proxypath;
1656 gaim_proxy_info_set_host(phb->gpi, connecthost); 1656 int proxyport;
1657 } 1657
1658 1658 /* http_proxy-format:
1659 if ((tmp = g_getenv("HTTP_PROXY_PORT")) != NULL || 1659 * export http_proxy="http://your.proxy.server:port/"
1660 (tmp = g_getenv("http_proxy_port")) != NULL || 1660 */
1661 (tmp = g_getenv("HTTPPROXYPORT")) != NULL) { 1661 if(gaim_url_parse(tmp, &proxyhost, &proxyport, &proxypath)) {
1662 connectport = atoi(tmp); 1662 gaim_proxy_info_set_host(phb->gpi, proxyhost);
1663 gaim_proxy_info_set_port(phb->gpi, connectport); 1663 g_free(proxyhost);
1664 g_free(proxypath);
1665
1666 /* only for backward compatibility */
1667 if (proxyport == 80 &&
1668 ((tmp = g_getenv("HTTP_PROXY_PORT")) != NULL ||
1669 (tmp = g_getenv("http_proxy_port")) != NULL ||
1670 (tmp = g_getenv("HTTPPROXYPORT")) != NULL))
1671 proxyport = atoi(tmp);
1672
1673 gaim_proxy_info_set_port(phb->gpi, proxyport);
1674 }
1664 } 1675 }
1665 1676
1666 if ((tmp = g_getenv("HTTP_PROXY_USER")) != NULL || 1677 if ((tmp = g_getenv("HTTP_PROXY_USER")) != NULL ||
1667 (tmp = g_getenv("http_proxy_user")) != NULL || 1678 (tmp = g_getenv("http_proxy_user")) != NULL ||
1668 (tmp = g_getenv("HTTPPROXYUSER")) != NULL) 1679 (tmp = g_getenv("HTTPPROXYUSER")) != NULL)