Re: [hobbit] [Hobbit] URLPlus interest - looking for feedback

[Gary Baluha <gumby3203 (at) gmail.com>]

URLPlus as it is now does support proxy servers.  I think the version on The
Shire (I still call it by that; I keep forgetting the new name) is an older
version prior to the proxy support I added.

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 2:15 AM, Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell (at) gmail.com>wrote:

> Heh - that looks like exactly what I was doing for the last 8 years.  Do
> you have any vacancies??  :)
> URLPlus uses curl, so it should be able to do what your existing scripts
> do.  This is the line in the showUrl subroutine:
>
>     $ret=qx(curl -m $tout -s -k -S $pstr "$url" 2>&1);
>
>
> I guess that's one place some changes could be made - adding options for
> user authentication, proxy url and proxy authentication.
>
> Ralph Mitchell
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Everett, Vernon <
> Vernon.Everett (at) woodside.com.au> wrote:
>
>>  Hi Gary
>>
>> I have seen URLPlus, but never delved into it.
>> Instead, I have been messing about with scripts using curl to try and get
>> web sites checked.
>> It gets a bit tricky here, because we have internal and external web sites
>> we need to check, some need to go through our proxy, some not.
>> And then we also need to check external "service" web sites that we
>> require to be up.
>> And it's all a nice mix of http and https.
>> Does URLPlus handle proxy servers OK?
>>
>> Not sure what it needs, since I haven't used it yet, but I would encourage
>> you to continue working on it.
>>
>> We have a major project deadline we are working towards right now, so time
>> is a premium, but in the near future, I will give URLPlus a go, and let you
>> know what I think.
>>
>> Regards
>>      Vernon
>>
>>