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Does the blogging bundle work with proxy servers, and if so, what do I have to configure/change (shell variables in TM?) to make it work correctly?

Support would need to be added for this. There is a Ruby Proxy class, so it might not be that difficult -- if you are familiar with Ruby, you may want to give this a shot yourself :)

I only had to do a small change in order to make the blogging bundle work with proxy servers. Attached you find the patch for the file blogging.rb, which is located in the Support/lib folder of the Blogging.bundle. The patch is for the Blogging.bundle included in revision 1183 of Textmate.

I changed the new2(...) method to set the proxy and added a text about "how to configure proxy settings" to the template text for the Blogging.bundle config file (com.macromates.textmate.blogging.txt).

To enable proxy support, you have to set and enable the TM_HTTP_PROXY environment variable (host:port of proxy server) in the Textmate preferences (Advanced->Shell Variables). If the variable is not set or disabled, the Blogging.bundle still works fine. So the patch should not break anything for non-proxy users.

A more elegant solution could read the proxy from the network settings for the current "Location" (configured in "System Preferences->Network"), but I haven't found out yet how to read these settings from ruby.

Please review / change / improve these modifications, so the Blogging.bundle with proxy support could soon be available in future Textmate updates. :-)

Marc

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