Bug 83078
| Summary: | RFE: HTTP proxy support | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Mike Cumings <mcumings> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Jeremy Katz <katzj> |
| Status: | CLOSED DEFERRED | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 8.0 | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2003-10-06 14:09:52 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Will be considered for future releases. The hard part is getting it in the first stage where we are severely limited on available space. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020920 Netscape/7.0 Description of problem: From what I can tell via google, RedHat 6.0 contained two flags to the 'url' kickstart config file handler to allow HTTP proxy servers to be used. It appears that somewhere along the line these options (--proxy <hostname> and --proxyport <portnum>) were removed from anaconda. My installation site has no direct IP access to a web server and I therefore have no method of installing via HTTP. During an installation I did some research via the shell and found the following - It appears that /usr/lib/anaconda/urlinstall.py is used for ftp:// and http:// installs via the UrlInstallMethod. This method in turn calls /usr/python/lib/urllib.py 's urlretrieve() method. This library apparently has proxy support via the standard environment variables http_proxy and ftp_proxy. Please (re?)add support for proxy-based HTTP installations into anaconda. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Examine the documentation and anaconda source 2. Fail fast. Expected Results: Ideally, support: --proxy hostname:port --proxyHost hostname --proxyPort port Additional info: