[packagekit] Proxy

[Bastien Nocera]

On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 08:47 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 14:47 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> >  - Daemon provides a SetProxySettings() method on the public
> > interface.
> >    On the interface to the backends, there's a GetProxySettings. So
> > e.g.
> >    the yum backend would get the proxy settings from the main daemon.
> 
> What constitutes a "proxy" - does it make sense to just send a string,
> e.g. "10.12.23.45:4567" or a string,uint, i.e. "10.12.23.45",4567

This doesn't account for:
- different protocols needing different proxies (different settings for
HTTP/HTTPS or even FTP).
- ignore lists, where the proxy would only be for external access, and
your local mirror wouldn't need it (or might not even work through the
proxy)

> Do we ever need to send usernames and passwords to proxy servers?

Yes. In a lot of companies, proxy requests are authenticated to track
users usage of the Internet.