[Merkaartor] 0.14-PRE1 and authenticating proxy support

[Chris Browet]

That's OK. If it doesn't work for OSM, it won't for Yahoo.

Trying to figure out the common denominator:
Do you all use proxy authentification?

2009/7/2 Thomas Siegmund <siegmund at develogen.com>

> On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 17:25:05 +0200
>  Chris Browet <cbro at semperpax.com> wrote:
>
>> Do you have to problem with all downloads (i.e. OSM, mapnick, yahoo) or
>> only
>> some? I had problems with 4.5.x, but only with Yahoo (=webkit)
>>
>>
> Hi Chris,
>
> I have looked at
>
> - tiles download for the map in the download dialog
> - OSM download (api)
>
> both don't work. Can try Yahoo tomorrow.
>
> Thanks
>
> Thomas
>
>
>
>
>
>  - Chris -
>>
>> 2009/7/2 Thomas Siegmund <siegmund at develogen.com>
>>
>>  Hi everybody,
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm having problems with proxies too, using current svn builds on linux
>>> and
>>> Qt 4.5.2. A few months ago everything was fine, but unfortunately I do
>>> not
>>> no when the problems started.
>>>
>>>
>>> I have modified line 376/7 in src/Preferences/MerkaartorPreferences.cpp
>>> to
>>> read
>>>
>>>
>>> #if QT_VERSION > 0x040500
>>> proxy.setType(QNetworkProxy::HttpCachingProxy);
>>>
>>>
>>> and then tried HttpCachingProxy, HttpProxy and Socks5Proxy. Both
>>> HttpProxy
>>> and HttpCachingProxy fail here because they issue a "CONNECT" which the
>>> proxy does not accept. If I understand the Qt documentation
>>> http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/qnetworkproxy.html right, only the
>>> HttpProxy
>>> should use CONNECT. The Socks5Proxy works for me using an ssh tunnel
>>> bypassing the proxy.
>>>
>>>
>>> The proxy setup code in MerkaartorPreferences looks pretty much like the
>>> example code in the Qt documentation. For reference I have also looked
>>> into
>>> KDEs Marble, which has started to work here with the latest version.
>>> Before
>>> it failed on the proxy too.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://lxr.kde.org/source/KDE/kdeedu/marble/src/marble_part.cpp
>>>
>>>
>>> It now loads the same tiles which Merkaartor failes to load in it's
>>> download dialog. Marble uses a HttpProxy, but I don't see much difference
>>> in
>>> the code.
>>>
>>>
>>> Puzzled,
>>>
>>>
>>> Thomas
>>>
>>>
>>> Fabien wrote:
>>> > Martin Feuersänger <m <at> feuersaenger.de> writes:
>>> > > Hi all,
>>> > >
>>> > > I tried out 0.14-PRE1 yesterday, for the first time on Windows (using
>>> the
>>> > > prebuild debug version).
>>> > > However, I was behind a Microsoft ISA 2006 proxy. I gave hostname,
>>> port,
>>> > > username, and password to merkaartor but I only got a "http request
>>> > > failed" when trying to download.
>>> >
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > Proxy error too on SQUID 2.5 and no auth.
>>> > Works fine with JOSM.
>>> >
>>> > Fabien
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
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