Re: Living with a proxy

[Konrad Hinsen]

Ludovic Courtès writes:

 > Currently Guix uses Guile’s HTTP client, which doesn’t support proxies
 > (the FTP client doesn’t either.)  It should support it though.
 > 
 > It shouldn’t be too difficult to implement, but I’m not too familiar
 > with all that, so I’d welcome ideas and patches.  ;-)

Proxies are a big mess, so my first idea is to let someone else do the
hard work.

More concretely, I was thinking if libcurl, for which there are already
Guile bindings:

   http://www.lonelycactus.com/guile-curl.html

But I can't say if the functionality of libcurl is sufficient for
all network access done by Guix.

Konrad.