[Mono-osx] [MonoMac] Impossible to get MonoMac Addin under proxy

[Michael Hutchinson]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 2:52 AM, Steve Lessard <s_lessard at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Proxies and OS X is a topic on which I recently did a whole lot of
> investigation. OS X's built-in proxy client is an application-level proxy.
> It works with apps like Safari, but does not work with commands or utilities
> like curl or rsync. Some commands or utilities will work when the http_proxy
> or ftp_proxy env variable is set, but others will not work. (curl works with
> these variables, likely because it has built in support for virtually every
> proxy protocol.) Most GUI apps likely will not work with these env vars. If
> you want one solution that works with both applications and commands/tools
> you'd need a circuit-level proxy client. There's only a handful of those
> available on OS X. Proxifier is the best of the lot in my opinion.
>
> There are a few things that need to be known in order to help you find a
> solution. Which proxy protocol is the server running? Is it http, socks4,
> socks4a or socks5? Does the server require user authentication?
>
> I assume you are talking about trying to get the MonoMac plugin from within
> MonoDevelop. Does MonoDevelop execute a shell command to download the plugin
> or does it dowload the plugin all by itself?

MonoDevelop uses the .NET HTTP client APIs to download the plugin.
This will pick up the proxy from the .NET configuration system. Mono's
machine.config has a default proxy setting of "autodetect", but that
setting currently only causes Mono to check the HTTP_PROXY environment
variable. You could try setting HTTP_PROXY, or use machine.config to
set a proxy setting for all Mono apps.

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Michael Hutchinson
http://mjhutchinson.com