[packagekit] Getting and setting the proxy server

[Klaus Kaempf]

* Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> [May 19. 2008 12:41]:
> On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 11:35 +0200, Stanislav Visnovsky wrote:
> > How does this match with the system-wide proxy settings? 
> 
> Where's that set - /etc/sysconfig/? We should probably fallback to that
> too.

CURL uses various shell environment variables (http_proxy, FTP_PROXY,
...), see 'man curl'.

SUSE stores proxy-related settings in /etc/sysconfig/proxy

I guess its up to the backend to handle distribution-specific settings.

Klaus