[Bioperl-l] Firewall and Proxy

[Jason Stajich]

Have you set the proxy information.  The code can't deduce your proxy
information automatically.

All the modules which make internet connections either use LWP or a
bioperl internal module to connect which has built in proxy capabilities.
It is currently the case that you can't automatically set the
proxy/user/pass for the tests but, some people have proposed, and we would
whole heartedly endorse someone coming up with an environment variable
strategy that would allow the tests to pick up the necessary proxy
information and set the data in the specific objects so that tests would
run.

We'll be happy to apply any solutions to the code base.


On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Peter Kos wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> (it may be Perl problem rather than Bioperl, I don't know.
> There were already some questions regarding this issue recently, but
> I am not aware of satisfactory solution.)
>
> We have a quite nasty and strict proxy/firewall. Only port 80 is
> open, so I know that I will never be able to use ftp through this
> damn thing (unless I use some magic). However, HTTP should work, as
> Netscape functions all right.
> But it does not seem to be transparent for the Bioperl moduls
> according the corresponding tests.
> Until then I of course can not use *::Remote*, Bio::Biblio* and such.
> Please help me finding the solution. What should I read or set or
> alter or check?
> Any kind of help at any level would really be highly appreciated.
> Specs: SUN Solaris8 with the bundled Perl.
>
> Regards
> Peter
>
>
>
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Jason Stajich
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