How to setup STK to use a proxy

[bart15]

Hi all.

Running STK 0.8.1 on debian wheezy. My children can't connect to the internet without passing throught the proxy (squid + dansguardian).

The problem is that they can't get the add-ons (kart and race) without access to the internet. How can I set up the proxy parameters in STK.

Thanks for your help.

[samuncle]

Unfortunately I think it isn't possible. But it should be implemented. Maybe we should open a ticket so the upcoming version will be able to connect through a proxy.

[hiker]

Yes please, open a ticket, and tell us how you specify the proxy in your distro - I assume the settings are in some environment variables?

Cheers,
Joerg

[acme_pjz]

I think in most Linux it uses "http_proxy" environment variable, or "HTTP_PROXY", not sure... and in Windows you need to call some API to get proxy setting of Internet Explorer. IMHO the easiest way is let the user input proxy settings. Assuming you are using libcurl for download, it is easy to set proxy using functions in libcurl

[hiker]

I think in most Linux it uses "http_proxy" environment variable, or "HTTP_PROXY", not sure... and in Windows you need to call some API to get proxy setting of Internet Explorer. IMHO the easiest way is let the user input proxy settings. Assuming you are using libcurl for download, it is easy to set proxy using functions in libcurl

According to the libcurl doc, it should not be necessary to explicitly set proxy parameters, libcurls takes http_proxy etc into account (http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/CURLOPT_PROXY.html).

bart15, can you confirm that you have https_proxy defined (not only http)? And which version of libcurl is installed on your system?

Cheers,
Joerg