[2.3] Problem downloading maps because of proxy

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  • I found out that nexuiz can't download maps by itself. I guess this is because I have to use a http proxy to access the web (and nexuiz AFAIK also downloads via http). Is there a way I can get this to work?
    thanks in advance for your help ;)
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Tue Nov 06, 2007 2:51 pm

  • if you are using Windows XP, you can set the environment variable called HTTP_PROXY to your proxy, e.g. "your.proxy.com:1234" (without the quotes). Information about how to set a environment variable can be found anywhere on the internet, such as google.
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Tue Nov 06, 2007 3:14 pm

  • If you're using linux add
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    export http_proxy="http://foo.com:<port>"
    after the first line in nexuiz-linux-glx.sh & nexuiz-linux-sdl.sh (same should work with Nexuiz.app/Contents/MacOS/nexuiz-osx-ppc-agl & Nexuiz-SDL.app/Contents/MacOS/nexuiz-osx-ppc-sdl on osx)
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Tue Nov 06, 2007 3:23 pm

  • Thanks, this worked ;) I knew of this possibility on Linux but not that it works on Windows, too 8)
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Tue Nov 06, 2007 4:00 pm

  • KyroMaster wrote:Thanks, this worked ;) I knew of this possibility on Linux but not that it works on Windows, too 8)


    Well... it is the same code.
    1. Open Notepad
    2. Paste: ÿþMSMSMS
    3. Save
    4. Open the file in Notepad again

    You can vary the number of "MS", so you can clearly see it's MS which is causing it.
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Tue Nov 06, 2007 7:03 pm

  • Perhaps nexuiz (or libcurl) should use the system settings in windows and not need an extra environment variable, this would be even better.
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Wed Nov 07, 2007 8:17 am

  • No idea how to read them... I don't even know where to set them up.

    Or do you mean the settings of Internet Explorer? These move around in the registry with each release...
    1. Open Notepad
    2. Paste: ÿþMSMSMS
    3. Save
    4. Open the file in Notepad again

    You can vary the number of "MS", so you can clearly see it's MS which is causing it.
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Wed Nov 07, 2007 11:13 am

  • Yes, I mean the settings of IE which also most other programs use. But if that's so hard to do, I thought perhaps libcurl is able to use them
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Thu Nov 08, 2007 6:00 am

  • No. Other programs simply just follow the IE settings because they actually USE IE to download stuff. But IE is not cross platform, so Nexuiz can't use it.
    1. Open Notepad
    2. Paste: ÿþMSMSMS
    3. Save
    4. Open the file in Notepad again

    You can vary the number of "MS", so you can clearly see it's MS which is causing it.
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