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