[Bug 19974] New: The link checker will use a proxy and it will handle https but it does not do both

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=19974

          Priority: P2
            Bug ID: 19974
          Assignee: ville.skytta@iki.fi
           Summary: The link checker will use a proxy and it will handle
                    https but it does not do both
        QA Contact: www-validator-cvs@w3.org
          Severity: major
    Classification: Unclassified
                OS: All
          Reporter: mark.g.pohl@gmail.com
          Hardware: PC
            Status: NEW
           Version: unspecified
         Component: checklink
           Product: LinkChecker

The link checker will use a proxy just fine with http but if you use a proxy
with https it will not send the https through the proxy.  It will time out. 
There is a simple fix for this.  There is a simple fix.  Here is the code to
replace the current "new" constructor.  The comment and new code start at line
29 in the method

sub new
{
    my $proto = shift;
    my $class = ref($proto) || $proto;
    my ($name, $from, $rules) = @_;

    # For security/privacy reasons, if $from was not given, do not send it.
    # Cheat by defining something for the constructor, and resetting it later.
    my $from_ok = $from;
    $from ||= 'www-validator@w3.org';

    my $self;
    if (USE_ROBOT_UA) {
        $self = $class->SUPER::new($name, $from, $rules);
    }
    else {
        my %cnf;
        @cnf{qw(agent from)} = ($name, $from);
        $self = LWP::UserAgent->new(%cnf);
        $self = bless $self, $class;
    }

    $self->from(undef) unless $from_ok;

    $self->env_proxy();

     #Added this to set the proxy for https as well as http
    #This is not included with the standard distribution.
    #The standard distribution will work with a proxy and will work with https
but it 
    #does not work with both a proxy and https at the same time.
    $self->{proxy} = { https => $ua->{proxy}->{http},
                       http => $ua->{proxy}->{http}
                  };


    $self->allow_private_ips(1);

    $self->protocols_forbidden([qw(mailto javascript)]);

    return $self;
}

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Received on Thursday, 15 November 2012 23:13:21 UTC