dirmngr timeout

[Laszlo Papp]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 9:30 AM, Laszlo Papp <lpapp at kde.org> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 8:09 PM, Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org> wrote:
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>> On Tue, 10 Apr 2018 17:19, lpapp at kde.org said:
>>
>> > Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
>> > Length: 58162 (57K) [application/pgp-keys]
>>
>> Okay that works.  Now we need to see why dirmngr has a different idea.
>> When we first talked on IRC, someone else reported that he had no
>> problems with that configuration - but it might not be fully the same.
>> Thus I need to try replicating the problem myself - will take some time,
>> though.
>>
>> Do you have the envvar http_proxy set?  If so you also need to have
>>
>> honor-http-proxy
>>
>> in your dirmngr.conf.
>>
>
> That is an interesting idea as one would think that the environment
> variables would be respected by default rather than opting in.
>
> honor-http-proxy did not work, but --http-proxy host[:port] did. Thank you
> for pointing me to this direction.
>
> This makes me think that dirmngr does not understand the environment
> variable by default, given that it does not work "by default" and when I
> try to reinforce this with honor-http-proxy. Is this information lost when
> gpg launches dirmngr? If so, should it not be retained?
>
> Is there a command line option for gpg, like for sudo (-E) and similar
> software applications, to pass on all the environment variables properly if
> this is the issue?
>
> gpg is also used in my docker build process, so the best would be to
> respect the environment variable by default. Are there any objections to
> that? If so, what exactly?
>

It looks like if I run dirmngr manually, as follows, with honor-http-proxy,
gpg works:

dirmngr --daemon

But when it is run as dirmngr --supervised, gpg does not seem to work until
the http-proxy is specified in the config explicitly.



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>>
>>    Werner
>>
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