[CentOS] Yum / Up2date issues and mirror.centos.org
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Tue Nov 29 17:58:55 UTC 2005
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.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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