[Dancer-users] dancer behind web proxy

[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> 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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