[mythtv-users] http_proxy environment variable causing a raft of problems

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 10:07 -0500, Rich West wrote: 
> 
> Hmm.. perhaps not re-engineer the network entirely.  Sometimes you have
> to adapt to the ever changing landscape (nothing is ever static, after
> all), and sometimes you are forced to work around the perceived
> limitations imposed by the tools you really want to use. :)

Fair enough.

> I'm not sure if this helps, but I have a similar setup with the proxy
> server here (requiring authentication for internet browsing access),

Which you employ on the clients with the "http_proxy=" environment
variable?

> but
> have whitelisted my frontend systems so as to not require, use, or even
> know about the proxy server.

So just to be clear, you don't even give the FE machines the
"http_proxy=" environment setting then?  Or do you mean you give them
that environment variable but whitelist them in the proxy ACLs so they
still use the proxy but are not required to authenticate?

FWIW, that is what I do here.  Of course I don't expect a MythFE to
authenticate, but I do want it to use the proxy still, for the caching
efficiencies at least.

Cheers,
b.

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