Re: libcurl vs libsoup

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On fre, 2016-07-22 at 16:37 -0700, Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
>  
> From the Endless perspective, glib-networking proxy support doesn't
> matter to me much, because we drive it through a system daemon which
> can't read the user's proxy settings. libcurl, while its API feels a
> bit more "80s C", it seems to be better maintained than libsoup, and
> I trust its feature support more.

This isn't actually true for the apps, only the system stuff, because
flatpak does the download as the user (i.e. gnome-software does the
download). The system daemon only does the final verification.

However, I think using libcurl is probably overall a better idea for
flatpak too, as we will be able to use HTTP2, which should be a lot
better for pulling from ostree repos.

Is it possible to somehow override the proxy part of curl and plug in
the gnome proxy settings?

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