[webkit-help] can not set proxy for webkit Gtk version.

[Fern Moon]

Nayan,

Thanks for the help. One thing I need to mention is that you have to
explicit fill in every path of the proxy env.
eg.

export http_proxy=http://"":""@127.0.0.1:8080

--Fern

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Nayan <nayankk at gmail.com> wrote:
> You could also do following minor code changes to browse with proxy. Below
> is the patch which does the same.
>
> Index: WebKit/gtk/webkit/
> webkitprivate.cpp
> ===================================================================
> --- WebKit/gtk/webkit/webkitprivate.cpp (revision 51017)
> +++ WebKit/gtk/webkit/webkitprivate.cpp (working copy)
> @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
>  #include "ResourceHandleInternal.h"
>  #include <runtime/InitializeThreading.h>
>  #include "SecurityOrigin.h"
> +#include "libsoup/soup-auth.h"
>
>  #if ENABLE(DATABASE)
>  #include "DatabaseTracker.h"
> @@ -254,5 +255,16 @@
>
>      SoupSessionFeature* sniffer =
> static_cast<SoupSessionFeature*>(g_object_new(SOUP_TYPE_CONTENT_SNIFFER,
> NULL));
>      soup_session_add_feature(session, sniffer);
> +
> +    /* Add proxy support */
> +    char* proxy;
> +    if(proxy=getenv("http_proxy")) {
> +       printf("Setting proxy as %s\n", proxy);
> +       SoupURI* pURI = soup_uri_new(proxy);
> +       g_object_set(session, "proxy-uri", pURI, NULL );
> +    } else {
> +       printf("Proxy is not set\n");
> +    }
> +
>      g_object_unref(sniffer);
>  }
>
> This makes WebKit to use proxy address specified in 'http_proxy' enviorment
> variable for default browsing.
>
> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 6:18 AM, Fern Moon <fernmoon at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I found the patch in the following  links and applied it to version
>> 48647.  But the GTK built version still can not recognize proxy
>> settings from the environment variable http_proxy.
>>
>> http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/44479
>> http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/webkit-reviews/2009-May/037426.html
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Christophe Gillette
>> <christophe.public at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > The GTK version is now using libsoup for the networking layer. If the
>> > libsoup copy you are using is built --without-gnome, it won't retrieve
>> > the
>> > information from the environment variable.
>> >
>> > In your application (or GtkLauncher), you can read the environment
>> > variable
>> > and set the proxy using the libsoup API by getting the default session
>> > created by WebKit. For exmaple:
>> >
>> > void setProxy(const char *szUri)
>> > {
>> >     SoupURI *soupUri = szUri ? soup_uri_new(szUri) : 0;
>> >     g_object_set(webkit_get_default_session(), SOUP_SESSION_PROXY_URI,
>> > soupUri, NULL);
>> >     if (soupUri)
>> >         soup_uri_free(soupUri);
>> > }
>> >
>> > Christophe
>> >
>> > On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Fern Moon <fernmoon at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I google the method to set http proxy for webkit.
>> >>
>> >> I  try the follows, but the webkit can still access internet directly.
>> >>
>> >> export http_proxy="127.0.0.1:8081"
>> >> export http_proxy="127.0.0.1:8081"
>> >>
>> >> I verified that there is no such proxy in my machine.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks for help.
>> >>
>> >> Fern
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>
>
> --
> Regards,
> _Nayan_
>
>