[Bioperl-l] firewalls, and DB::GenBank, is this actually solved?

[Ewan Birney]

On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Mike Cariaso wrote:

> 
> A coworker is having a problem using Bio::DB::GenBank. Since the error message
> is 'No route to host', the firewall is immediately suspect. He now has the
> http_proxy set correctly but the problem persists. When I look at the code this
> particular module uses a socket connection, instead of the LWP UserAgent. Am I
> correct in assuming that this module does not recognize the http_proxy
> environment variable, and that therefore bug 815 is in fact not fixed?

We orginally decided not to make DB::GenBank use the LWP system, but now
this is so common it is probably worth converting it.

patches welcome ;)


> 
>  http://bio.perl.org/bioperl-bugs/Fixed-Bugs?id=815;expression=fire;user=guest
> 
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