Re: [help-GIFT] GIFT installation (new to GIFT)

[David Squire]

On Tuesday 03 February 2004 00:55, you wrote:

> > ====
> > Downloading the current Charmer version
> > GET http://www.mrml.net/download/packages/
> > ====
> >
> >         However due to the proxy settings in the department, I will need
> > to enter my login and password in order to get access to the out side
> > world. Therefore the GIFT configuration just halt at this stage. And I
> > cannot proceed to the next stage of installation (make & make install) by
> > terminating this process (Ctrl-C)
> >
> >         I am just wondering is there any way I can modify the script so
> > that the login info can be entered? 
> >    
The gift-install-prerequisites.pl script uses LWP::UserAgent and 
HTTP::Request. These packages do support proxies. After the user agent 
is created in the subroutine getAndUntar (line 49 in my version 
(gift-0.1.9)), the user agent can be told about proxies:

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new; # current line 49
# prompt user for proxy details, or hardcode them in a hack :)
my $ProxyIP = 'proxy.mydomain.edu'; # whatever the name of the proxy machine is.
                                  # I think you can include a port number suffix
                                  # if necessary (e.g. ':8080')
my $ProxyUsername = ...
my $ProxyPassword = ...
my $ProxyURI = "http://$ProxyUsername:address@hidden";;

# set the proxy server
$ua->proxy(['http', 'ftp'] => $ProxyURI);


Now, I have not been able to test this, but it should work , according 
to http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/lib/lwpcook.html#PROXIES. I have 
successfully used this for a proxy that does not require a username and 
password.

Note that the user agent is currently created every time the subroutine 
is called, so this would be repeated. It would be more efficient if 
there were one global to the package.

Cheers,

David

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Dr. David McG. Squire, Postgraduate Research Coordinator (Caulfield),
Computer Science and Software Engineering, Monash University, Australia
Monash Provider No. 00008C       http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~davids/