Better proxy support available via libcurl?

[David Shaw]

On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 01:35:08AM +0930, Alphax wrote:
> David Shaw wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 11:07:56AM +0930, Alphax wrote:
> >> Since gnupg uses libcurl, and libcurl has support for authenticating
> >> proxies...
> >>
> >> Shouldn't it be possible to have authenticating proxy support in gnupg?
> > 
> > Yes, it's possible.  At the moment, only BASIC auth is used.  Which
> > one did you need?
> > 
> 
> If BASIC is just username & password, it should be enough; I'll have to
> check the manpage to see how to use it...

Use a proxy like "http://user:pass@the.proxy.host".

Note that this works with both curl and the built-in HTTP handler also.

David