From: Adam Sampson <ats@offog.org>
Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 11:11:47 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Document proxy usage in README.
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Document proxy usage in README.
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diff --git a/README b/README
index 52f9d96..a73611e 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -52,6 +52,15 @@ looks something like this:
 (If you don't know how to use cron, then "man crontab" is probably a good
 start.) This will run rawdog every ten minutes.
 
+If you want rawdog to fetch URLs through a proxy server, then set your
+"http_proxy" environment variable appropriately; depending on your version of
+cron, putting something like:
+
+http_proxy=http://myproxy.mycompany.com:3128/
+
+at the top of your crontab should be appropriate. (The http_proxy variable will
+work for many other programs too.)
+
 In the event that rawdog gets horribly confused (for instance, if your system
 clock has a huge jump and it thinks it won't need to fetch anything for the
 next thirty years), you can forcibly clear its state by removing the