WordPy over HTTP proxy

[DaveRo]

I am travelling in Greece and using my N810/N70 over a mobile data service which only provides http and requires a proxy. I have failed to get WordPy to work - see the last post in this thread:
http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?p=241797#post241797

Having just had a similar problem with wget - the http_proxy env variable was not set - I wonder if the problem with WordPy is similar - ie it's not using the proxy set up in the connection manager , even though the browser is using it.

So, how does WordPy know to use a proxy?

Or doesn't it use http?

[yerga]

Sorry for not reply in that thread, I thought I had done it.

Right now Wordpy doesn't use the proxy, it tries connect directly to Internet. Every feature works differently (Wordpress, Blogger, Flickr, etc.) but AFAIK all them use http. I really don't know why setting the http_proxy variable doesn't work (never used it).

I will be working in this feature in the next weeks.
The most important problem I have it's my connections aren't through proxies, so I need recreate this scenario in some way. Also, I'm a bit undocumented in this topic, so it won't be a easy task ;-)

[DaveRo]

OK - thanks.

'http_proxy' may be specific to wget; I don't know whether all programs that use http over the internet are supposed to use the same system.

Maybe someone here knows how MicroB handles proxy http connections then WodPy can do the same.

[DaveRo]

There are quite a few posts on this forum about problems with programs that do not recognise an http proxy.

I tried - as root:
export http_proxy=http://10.10.10.10:8080

and then tried uploading a pic to flickr with WordPy. It did not work.

A thought: you could maybe test a proxy using privoxy running on the same machine. I use privoxy on this N810.