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| author |  https://christian.amsuess.com/chrysn <https://christian.amsuess.com/chrysn@web> | 2018-02-14 14:12:14 +0000 |
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| committer |  admin <admin@branchable.com> | 2018-02-14 14:12:14 +0000 |
| commit | f743546fcc35b9414f3a0bae4deb6371d6376414 (patch) | |
| tree | b70a0dfd40b31d0bc7aaad0b5df8fb698ef8fe25 | |
| parent | b0db0d86cc57c6c3c6ddc59dfc9bd9033f242b5a (diff) | |
add wishlist item "creating importfeed does not work with socks proxy"
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/bugs/importfeed_does_not_work_with_socks_proxy.mdwn | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/bugs/importfeed_does_not_work_with_socks_proxy.mdwn b/doc/bugs/importfeed_does_not_work_with_socks_proxy.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..cee34367e --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/importfeed_does_not_work_with_socks_proxy.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +It appears that `git annex importfeed` can not be used in with socks proxies because it uses wget unconditionally (at least in the Debian build). + +For `addurl`, I could configure the system to use a socks proxy by setting `git config annex.web-download-command "curl --silent --preproxy socks4a://localhost:1080 %url -o %file"`; for `importfeed`, I found no option to override the command used to fetch the URL, and `wget` [lacks SOCKS support](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=43576). + +Please consider using `web-download-command` for `importfeed` too, introducing a dedicated option `web-get-command` (that would output to stdout rather than %file), or otherwise supporting operation behind a SOCKS proxy. |