==Affects:
All Mac OS X versions of Buddy.
==Problem:
If you have a proxy server defined in your Network
Preferences, Buddy doesn't know about it and is unable
to download anything.
==Temporary Workaround:
Paste the following line of text into the Terminal
window Buddy opened and press return (replace <proxy>
with the URL of your proxy server, and if there's a
port specified, add a : and the port number immediately
after the URL):
echo "HTTP_PROXY <proxy>" > ~/.curlrc
This will write a configuration file, .curlrc, that
will tell curl to
use your proxy server.
==Developer Comments:
This bug is really more of a problem between Curl's
interaction with Mac OS X, but I'd still like to
provide a trouble-free workaround. In the long term,
this could be a sticky issue because the program would
have to monitor both your network and location
preferences so it's not trying to go through the
corporate proxy server when you're connecting from home.
==Special Thanks:
to Rene in Redwood Shores for catching this one and
confirming the temporary fix.
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