Use the system-wide proxy on OS X

[tiennou]

I had to switch to using tor in order to circumvent the blocakde on .torrent files instated by my ISP, and I had a thought about the recent proxy support added ;-).

The problem is that I want proxying only at home (and thus has enabled the system-wide proxy under this network configuration only), and since Transmission repeats the proxy configuration in its prefs, I can't have the benefits of automagically enabling/disabling the proxy when I change network configurations.

[charles]

What the proxy GUI does, is force a specific configuration onto libcurl. If you disable the proxy in Transmission's GUI, then Transmission will fall back to the standard http_proxy, ftp_proxy, all_proxy etc environmental variables, if any of those is set.

So I think all you need to do is to disable the proxy in Transmission's GUI, and just use the standard environmental variables.

[charles]

As an aside, it's nice to hear from you again. :)

[tiennou]

Agreed, it's been a long time ;-). I hope I'll be able to devote a little more time in helping T's development (I'm overloaded by work atm), but expect to have a nice DHT working in a few months from now, and a quick patch for fixing fast-peers ! Keep up the good work !

[tiennou]

I tested it right now (with wireshark), and it doesn't work (I still see HTTP traffic with announce in them). Guess Apple doesn't like environment variables ;-). Lowering priority, since its a small issue.

[livings124]

The proxy support is just for the the tracker connection separate from the system. If you can write a patch for that to go through the system settings separately, please reopen.