Rob,
Thanks for getting back to me...here is what I found so far:
Ok, I've verified the curl extension is running. I am using 1.8.3 MediaWiki, and I put $wgHttpProxy = true; into my LocalSetting.php file.
This is the extension I am using: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GISWiki/RSS
My PHP is extremely weak (I am working on learning it now), so I can't tell if the feed supports it or not. Would appreciate any additional guidance you can give.
Thanks! Dave
-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Rob Church Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 10:07 AM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Wiki sitting behind a corporate firewall issues
On 18/01/07, David_S_Green@dell.com David_S_Green@dell.com wrote:
My question was whether there was a way that MediaWiki (or the extenstion, etc) to use the proxy server? So is there a way to have
the
RSS feed go "hey this is an external request, go through the proxy".
Yes, at least assuming
* You've got the curl extension installed (it's available and simple to install for Windows, Unix and Linux, so no real excuse) * You're running a fairly recent version of MediaWiki * The RSS feed uses the MediaWiki-provided methods for getting the data, which it quite possibly doesn't
If all the above are satisfied, then setting $wgHttpProxy in LocalSettings.php should be adequate.
Note: We don't support proxy authentication at present. This seems like a sensible enough thing to add, and isn't exactly difficult.
Rob Church
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