On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, seth vidal wrote: > > AFAICT, yum has no way to deal with this arrangement where a web proxy is > > needed for some sites, but not for others. Would it be useful for anyone > > else to allow the http_proxy configuration in yum.conf on a site-by-site > > basis? > > Shouldn't your proxy deal with that? ie: the proxy should know that > certain sites are local and others aren't and pass you through to the > local ones normally. Unfortunately, no (not something I can change either). > I can't think of any program that copes with some proxy and some > non-proxy connections. Lots do. Mozilla, Netscape, IE, and most other web browsers let you say "use a proxy, but access this white list directly", for example later, chris
