[dev] [surf] Proxy not respected

[Peter Vollmar]

I have been using surf on Gentoo for a long time, but recent versions do no longer respect the http_proxy variable (in contrast to what it says in the manpage).
Yours faithfully

Peter Vollmar
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[Quentin Rameau]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2018 13:11:00 +0200
***@vollmar.ch (Peter Vollmar) wrote:

Hello Peter,

Post by Peter Vollmar
I have been using surf on Gentoo for a long time, but recent versions do no longer respect the http_proxy variable (in contrast to what it says in the manpage).

It does for me:

$ http_proxy=http://127.0.0.1 surf suckless.org

Surf shows me: “Could not connect to proxy server 127.0.0.1: Connection
refused” because I don't have a proxy running there.

So maybe something's wrong with your webkitgtk/libsoup setup.

Post by Peter Vollmar
Yours faithfully

Same.

[Nick]

Hi Peter,

Post by Quentin Rameau
So maybe something's wrong with your webkitgtk/libsoup setup.

To add on to what Quentin said, webkitgtk2 hasn't always respected
the http_proxy variable, so updating it is definitely the likely fix
here. I used to have the same problem.

That said, as I laid out in a post to this mailing list in March
"[surf] unreliable loading of multiple requests over tor", the proxy
support in new webkitgtk2 is still a bit crap, at least for me and
some other users.

Nick