Weather plugin problems

[Brian J. Tarricone]

Steve Cooke wrote:

> Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>
>> you mentioned that you're behind a proxy - is this a transparent 
>> proxy, or do you have to set the http_proxy env variable or 
>> somesuch?  i wouldn't be surprised if the weather plugin doesn't have 
>> proxy support.
>
>
> Hi Brian,
>
> Yes, I have the HTTP_PROXY environment var set. I checked out the 
> weather plugin code and it is trying to make a call to 
> xoap.weather.com. How would I be able to add the proxy in? I don't 
> know enough about how proxys work in order to add support for them to 
> the plugin.

AFAIK, adding proxy support is somewhat non-trivial.  i don't know how 
to do this.

> One other thought I had was that my system may not be configured 
> correctly. Where does the data file get written to? It may be that the 
> app is trying to write to a location it hasn't the privileges to. I 
> have a feeling that this is more likely to be the problem. I'm sure 
> that at least some of the Xfce users using the weather plugin are 
> doing so behind proxys - I can't be the only one surely?

i don't know - i think with the advent of NAT, proxies are a lot less 
common than they used to be.  i'd bet the problem is the proxy, as the 
config files are stored in ~/.xfce4/.

    -brian