Feature Proposal: LWP::UserAgent finer control

Motivation

Behind a firewall, LWP::UserAgent may need extra parameters and settings.

Description and Documentation

Introduce the following configuration parameters

• $TWiki::cfg{PROXY}{Protocols} (an array reference)
  If provided, it's passed as the first argument of the proxy method. There are cases where proxy handling of HTTPS requests needs to be done outside LWP. In that case, proxy(['http'], $proxyURL) instead of proxy(['http', 'https'], $proxyURL) needs to be called.
• $TWiki::cfg{LWPUserAgent}{Params} (a hash reference)
  If provided, it becomes the base of the parameters handed to LWP::UserAgent::new(). Parameter values provided may be overridden by httpHandler and others.

Examples

$TWiki::cfg{PROXY}{Protocols} = [qw(http)];
$TWiki::cfg{LWPUserAgent}{Params} = {ssl_opts => { verify_hostname => 0 }};

Impact

Implementation

-- Contributors: Hideyo Imazu - 2013-02-25

Discussion

Looks good.

-- Peter Thoeny - 2013-02-25