Re: [Gretl-devel] using libcurl
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012, Henrique Andrade wrote:
Using libcurl we would be able to have secure proxy authentication?
Yes, that should be possible, though it may take a little
experimentation to get it right. Here are two things to try.
1) Under the "Network" tab in gretl's Preferences dialog, set
the HTTP proxy and check "Use HTTP proxy". The general form of
the proxy string is now
http://[username:password@]host[:port]
where [...] denotes an optional element, and "host" can be
given as hostname or IP number. For example
http://myname:mypass@www.myproxy.net:80
2) Alternatively, blank out the HTTP proxy entry under
Preferences and uncheck the "Use HTTP proxy" box, and instead
put the appropriate value into the environment variable
"http_proxy". This may already be defined on your system. As
in
http_proxy=http://myname:mypass@www.myproxy.net:80
This environment variable should be respected by libcurl (but
it will be overriden by any proxy specification passed by
gretl).
Allin