[mythtv] Mythnetvision Grabbers Using Proxy?
Michael T. Dean
mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Sun Jul 25 21:44:21 UTC 2010
On 07/25/2010 05:37 PM, Richard Nickle wrote:
>
> I've been developing a grabber, but when I moved it onto my laptop (to
> work on it while traveling), I ran into an issue. My laptop needs to
> use a proxy server because I use a VPN connection.
>
> The grabber is using a fairly standard Perl module (LWP::Simple), and
> simply adding the environment variable HTTP_PROXY is enough to get it
> to work (have to do this for both the FE and BE.)
>
> I can do that fine, but what's the preferred methodology for Mythtv to
> set environment variables, and is there one for HTTP_PROXY?
Wouldn't you just start your MythTV application (mythfrontend,
mythbackend, whatever) in an environment that already has HTTP_PROXY set
(and properly exported)?
Mike
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