As far as stage 1/2, I guess I was confused. My plan is to build in support for http proxy for ftp/http/s network installation. I was focusing on the python side of things assuming it was stage 1. In reality I think there will need to be http proxy support on both stage 1(C) and stage 2(python) since stage 1 must download stage2.img. Does this sound correct? The good thing is that proxy support on the python side is very easy. Probably C will not be so forgiving.
Or maybe my work is done for me. I just saw this:
else {
reflowedText = newtReflowText(
_("If you are using a HTTP proxy server "
"enter the name of the HTTP proxy server to use."),
47, 5, 5, &width, &height);
}
I know I didn't see that with F7, is this new for f8?