Feature Proposal: Add {PROXY}{SkipProxyForDomains} configure setting in LocalSite.cfg

Motivation

On most of the intranet the proxy server is avoided for local(traffic to local lan web sites) websites. A few times these local sites are not accessible through proxy server.

Description and Documentation

The content is fetched from external sites, say http://example.com by TWiki Variable %INCLUDE{"http://example.com"}

Most of the enterprise support proxy server to access the internet. To fetch the content from local web sites the proxy should be avoided.

We should be able to set variable $TWiki::cfg{PROXY}{SkipProxyForDomains} = 'localhost, *.example.com, mydomain.com'; which helps TWiki instance to decide not not proxy configured using variable $TWiki::cfg{PROXY}{HOST} and $TWiki::cfg{PROXY}{PORT}

Examples

Impact

Implementation

-- Contributors: SopanShewale - 10 Feb 2009

Discussion

This feature is very much needed in the enterprise space, good fit for the TWikiMission.

-- PeterThoeny - 10 Feb 2009

It looks like this has been implemented for TWiki-4.3 (TWkibug:Item6226) but not for trunk and TWiki-5.0 (TWikibug:Item6231). This is an oversight and should be done in the next patch release of TWiki-5.0.

Sopan, could you own this?

-- PeterThoeny - 2010-06-23