Comment 9 for bug 186920

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote : Re: [Bug 186920] Re: bzr launchpad does not handle proxy when used for name resolution

On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 11:44 +0000, David Cournapeau wrote:
> Is this something you won't fix ? Since some protocols already support
> it (http), isn't it easy to add support for the other ones ?

Depends on the protocol.

The lp: protocol makes an http request - its a bug if that does use the
proxy. After that it either makes a bzr+ssh request (which is not
trivially proxiable), or another http request (which again should use
the proxy).

sftp is not trivially proxiable.

ditto ftp.

-Rob

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