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If I try to authenticate using openid to my site, it tries to create a http or https connection to the openid server. This doesn't work, because the direct connection is blocked by the firewall.
It would be good if ikiwiki supported setting up a proxy server to solve this.
I have found if I add:
newenviron[i++]="HTTPS_PROXY=http://host.domain.com:3128";
to IkiWiki/Wrapper.pm it solves the problem for https requests, however it obviously would be preferred if the proxy name is not hard coded.
Also, the ability to set HTTPS\_CA\_FILE and HTTPS\_CA\_DIR might benefit some people. Then again, it I can't see any evidence that the SSL certificate of the server is being checked. See the [[bug_report|ssl_certificates_not_checked_with_openid]] I filed on this separate issue.
Unfortunately, HTTP\_PROXY doesn't work for http:// requests, it looks like that library is different.
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Update 2008-10-26:
Better solution, one that works for both http and https, and uses config options. It appears to work...
Note that using $ua->proxy(['https'], ...); won't work, you get a "Not Implemented" error, see <http://community.activestate.com/forum-topic/lwp-https-requests-proxy>. Also see [[!debbug 129528]].
Also note that the proxy won't work with liblwpx-paranoidagent-perl, I had to remove liblwpx-paranoidagent-perl first.
<pre>
louie:/usr/share/perl5/IkiWiki/Plugin# diff -u openid.pm.old openid.pm
--- openid.pm.old 2008-10-26 12:18:58.094489360 +1100
+++ openid.pm 2008-10-26 12:40:05.763429880 +1100
@@ -165,6 +165,14 @@
$ua=LWP::UserAgent->new;
}
+ if (defined($config{"http_proxy"})) {
+ $ua->proxy(['http'], $config{"http_proxy"});
+ }
+
+ if (defined($config{"https_proxy"})) {
+ $ENV{HTTPS_PROXY} = $config{"https_proxy"};
+ }
+
# Store the secret in the session.
my $secret=$session->param("openid_secret");
if (! defined $secret) {
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Brian May
> Rather than adding config file settings for every useful environment
> variable, there is a ENV config file setting that can be used to set
> any environment variables you like. So, no changed needed.
> --[[Joey]]
>> One thing I don't like about using ikiwiki for tracking bugs is I don't
>> get notified when changes are made :-(.
>>
>> Anyway, if you look at the code I pasted above, the environment variables
>> do not work for http:// - you have to use $ua->proxy(...) for them.
>> This is significant, because all openid servers in my version appear to have been
>> defined with http:// not https:// in /usr/share/ikiwiki/openid-selector/ikiwiki/openid/openid-jquery.js
>>
>> Use $ua->env_proxy() to get it to read the environment variables. Then http:// does work.
>>
>> Unfortunately this breaks https:// even more - but nothing I do seems to make https:// work anymore.