After a quick couple of searches, found out there doesn't seem to be any information about setting up OWB to use a proxy. I've switched to using OWB on my A1 because I'm fed up with the random crashes in IBrowse. IB is a nice browser, but it's not stable enough for me anymore on OS4. Especially since OWB seems to be rock solid so far.

And it can show a lot of pages properly, where IB could not.

Anyway, does anyone know if the current OWB can be set up to use a proxy?

Last edited by DWolfman on 25-Aug-2009 at 06:55 AM.

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I've switched to using OWB on my A1 because I'm fed up with the random crashes in IBrowse. IB is a nice browser, but it's not stable enough for me anymore on OS4. Especially since OWB seems to be rock solid so far.

I don't think the IBrowse crashes are down to IBrowse itself, but more due to petunia.library.kmod.
I get frequent visits from the Grim Reaper, when I close down IBrowse and open Turbocalc, both of which are 68k apps. Whether petunia doesn't multi-task properly, or needs time to close down one app before running another, I don't know, but that's when I get most GR's.

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@DWolfman

I assume the OS4 version uses a similar version of CURL. If that's the case, proxies can be used through an env var: HTTP_PROXY.

@thread

Well, the docs don't mention anything about any environment variables. I'll have to look that up though. Maybe on the OWB web site (the main one, not Joerg Strohmayer's site) they'll say something about it.

I had hoped that Joerg would have answered this thread. He'd know the best if it supports using proxies.

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Well, you can trust me too (I ported OWB to MorphOS). Since OWB OS4 also uses CURL as network layer, it's highly probable it supports the env vars accepted by CURL Refer to CURL documentation if you like.

Besides, SnoopDos (or Snoopy on OS4) is your friend, and it would tell you immediately what env variables are checked.

Just try it. :)

@Fab

OK, I've got Snoopy installed so will use it to see what OWB does while it's opening up.

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@Fab

OK, Snoopy didn't do me any good. It generated so much stuff that I couldn't find the variable names (something like 4000 lines!!).

Anyway, Google found the answer.

I set and saved "all_proxy", which seemed to work just fine. Thanks for the info, as it was definitely helpful.

For right now I have it set to the specific IP and port that my proxy is set up as on my server. I'd rather have it read a proxy.pac file so it skips using the proxy for local stuff (have that built in to the PAC file). That way I don't have to reconfigure this the next time I make changes to the server's proxy setup.

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For other's reference, here are the variables that cURL understands. I would guess that they all should work with OWB.

http_proxy [protocol://][:port]
Sets proxy server to use for HTTP.
HTTPS_PROXY [protocol://][:port]
Sets proxy server to use for HTTPS.
FTP_PROXY [protocol://][:port]
Sets proxy server to use for FTP.
ALL_PROXY [protocol://][:port]
Sets proxy server to use if no protocol-specific proxy is set.
NO_PROXY
list of host names that shouldn't go through any proxy. If set to a asterisk '*' only, it matches all hosts.

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