[Dancer-users] dancer behind web proxy

[sawyer x]

Thank you!

I hope we could resolve it soon! :)

On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Stefan Oberwahrenbrock <
oberwahrenbrock at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi sawyer x!
>
> I have just created an account on github.com and filed an appropriate
> issue (Titel: "delay while running dancer behind (corporate) proxy and
> firewall").
>
> Greetings,
> Stefan
>
> Am 21.11.2010 13:00, schrieb sawyer x:
>
>> Hi Stefan.
>>
>> Thank you for spotting this issue.
>>
>> Would it be possible for you to open up an issue for this on Github
>> Issues[1]?
>>
>> It would be much easier for us to track and fix it.
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/sukria/Dancer/issues
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Stefan Oberwahrenbrock
>> <oberwahrenbrock at gmx.de <mailto:oberwahrenbrock at gmx.de>> wrote:
>>
>>    Hello!
>>
>>    Making my first moves on the "development dance floor" I stumbled
>>    over an issue I'd like to mention: When I ran "dancer -a mywebapp"
>>    to start my first application on a linux machine, the shell/command
>>    seemed to freeze. Quite confused I realized after some tries, that
>>    the helper script ("/usr/local/bin/dancer") finally finished
>>    sucessfully - but only after round about 3 minutes of apparently
>>    doing nothing!
>>
>>    What happend? Using "strace" I found out, that the helper script
>>    tries to establish an internet connection. I traced it down to the
>>    subroutine "version_check". Obviously this subroutine checks whether
>>    the locally installed version of "Dancer" is up to date. To achieve
>>    this, an HTTP-request to
>>    "http://search.cpan.org/dist/Dancer/CHANGES" is made.
>>
>>    Basically this is a good idea, but in my case it also was the cause
>>    for the unexpected bevahiour/delay: The linux machine I was using is
>>    located behind a corporate web proxy - direct internet access is not
>>    possible. That proxy was configured properly in the linux system
>>    (environment variable "http_proxy") and on applicaton level (e. g.
>>    CPAN access). Unfortunately the helper script does not seem to
>>    utilise proxy settings and gets caught by some default timeout
>>    mechanisms.
>>
>>     >From my point of view it would be nice, if the helper script was
>>    able to cope with proxies - at least it would be nice, if the script
>>    printed out some message about the attempted internet access. Could
>>    be a valuable hint for proxy-plagued novice like me ;-)
>>
>>    Greetings,
>>    Stefan Oberwahrenbrock
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