[Dancer-users] dancer behind web proxy

[Stefan Oberwahrenbrock]

Luckily this is fixed in 1.2000! Thus, I just closed the issue on github :-)

Am 21.11.2010 20:06, schrieb sawyer x:
> Thank you!
>
> I hope we could resolve it soon! :)
>
> On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Stefan Oberwahrenbrock
> <oberwahrenbrock at gmx.de <mailto:oberwahrenbrock at gmx.de>> wrote:
>
>     Hi sawyer x!
>
>     I have just created an account on github.com <http://github.com> and
>     filed an appropriate issue (Titel: "delay while running dancer
>     behind (corporate) proxy and firewall").
>
>     Greetings,
>     Stefan
>
>     Am 21.11.2010 13:00, schrieb sawyer x:
>
>         Hi Stefan.
>
>         Thank you for spotting this issue.
>
>         Would it be possible for you to open up an issue for this on Github
>         Issues[1]?
>
>         It would be much easier for us to track and fix it.
>
>         Thank you!
>
>         [1] https://github.com/sukria/Dancer/issues
>
>
>         On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Stefan Oberwahrenbrock
>         <oberwahrenbrock at gmx.de <mailto:oberwahrenbrock at gmx.de>
>         <mailto:oberwahrenbrock at gmx.de <mailto:oberwahrenbrock at gmx.de>>>
>         wrote:
>
>             Hello!
>
>             Making my first moves on the "development dance floor" I
>         stumbled
>             over an issue I'd like to mention: When I ran "dancer -a
>         mywebapp"
>             to start my first application on a linux machine, the
>         shell/command
>             seemed to freeze. Quite confused I realized after some
>         tries, that
>             the helper script ("/usr/local/bin/dancer") finally finished
>             sucessfully - but only after round about 3 minutes of apparently
>             doing nothing!
>
>             What happend? Using "strace" I found out, that the helper script
>             tries to establish an internet connection. I traced it down
>         to the
>             subroutine "version_check". Obviously this subroutine checks
>         whether
>             the locally installed version of "Dancer" is up to date. To
>         achieve
>             this, an HTTP-request to
>         "http://search.cpan.org/dist/Dancer/CHANGES" is made.
>
>             Basically this is a good idea, but in my case it also was
>         the cause
>             for the unexpected bevahiour/delay: The linux machine I was
>         using is
>             located behind a corporate web proxy - direct internet
>         access is not
>             possible. That proxy was configured properly in the linux system
>             (environment variable "http_proxy") and on applicaton level
>         (e. g.
>             CPAN access). Unfortunately the helper script does not seem to
>             utilise proxy settings and gets caught by some default timeout
>             mechanisms.
>
>          >From my point of view it would be nice, if the helper script was
>             able to cope with proxies - at least it would be nice, if
>         the script
>             printed out some message about the attempted internet
>         access. Could
>             be a valuable hint for proxy-plagued novice like me ;-)
>
>             Greetings,
>             Stefan Oberwahrenbrock
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