On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 11:04, Johnny Hughes wrote:
so my question is..why can't yum deal with a squid proxy running in transparent mode?..<G>
Because a transparent proxy is cheating ... yum has no idea that you are using a proxy.
That's the point. You don't need to configure every client. Why would anyone want to?
Transparent proxies are not the way proxy servers should be done.
And the more correct alternative that allows yum to work without configuration would be???
If you know the IP address and port of your transparent proxy ... and you setup yum to use it properly, it will be no problem.
It is no problem for browsers either way. What does yum need that browsers don't?
If yum is not configured to use a proxy, it assumes that it is making a direct connection. This is not an unreasonable assumption, and it is quite logical.
Transparent proxies should be against the freaking law :)
Yes, right *after* there is universal agreement on how to auto-configure everything that uses http and ftp to use a non-transparent proxy - and the matching code gets added everywhere. Meanwhile things that claim to use http should work the same way as browsers.