On Thu, Sep 14, 2006, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> On Sep 14, 2006, at 4:25 PM, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
>
> >On Thu, Sep 14, 2006, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> >
> >>On Sep 14, 2006, at 4:06 PM, Adam D. Morley wrote:
> >>
> >>>>It certainly _is_ doable. Either by doing the RPM 4.4 upgrade
> >>>>(which we
> >>>>need sometime in the future anyway and which I would recommend to
> >>>>do) or
> >>>>by hacking in support for FTP-via-HTTP proxying into RPM 4.2
> >>>>(which I do
> >>>>not really recommend, but which could be an acceptable hack).
> >>>>
> >>
> >>I'll look at hacking FTP-via-HTTP into rpm-4.4.7 this weekend. It
> >>will
> >>probably take me a weekend or two to get implemented however.
> >>
> >>Lord knows the TIS proxy support in rpm is ancient, from 1997 irrc.
> >
> >Hey, _THAT_ would be really phantastic as this is a really long
> >standing
> >problem many people were faced with. This way once we upgrade to RPM
> >4.4.7 our OpenPKG community can leverage from this new feature, too.
> >Many thanks for all your great efforts on RPM, Jeff.
>
> Hehe, been on my todo list since 1999. I'm such a lazy schmuck, sigh.
>
> What always stops is the apache config (if any) to set-up a FTP (or
> other) proxy (blush).
> I'm usually on a single devel machine with no access or control (or
> knowledge) of server config.
>
> Anything special I have to do with apache?
To run Apache mod_proxy as the proxy? Using "ProxyRequests on" in the
Apache server configuration should do the trick for a basic proxy. But I
recommend you to not use Apache as the proxy. Use Squid for your testing
as it is more mature technology when it comes to HTTP proxying.
Ralf S. Engelschall
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www.engelschall.com
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