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From: Steven Barlow <stemail23@gmail.com>
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Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:11:50 +1000
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Subject: Re: _replicator database and proxies
To: "user@couchdb.apache.org" <user@couchdb.apache.org>
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Thanks for the comments.

I appreciate that each replication document is independent. I guess
I'm questioning whether the proxy configuration is typically an
attribute of the individual replication entity, rather than being a
"system-wide" connection configuration. I'm struggling to envisage a
scenario whereby different replication documents might have different
proxy settings?

To support that use case though, I guess, why not retain a replication
document level setting as an override, but introduce a global setting
for what, at least in my opinion, is the more typical use case?

In answer to the question, "why is my configuration changing so
rapidly?" - My proxy settings change several times every day when my
laptop travels to and from my home network (no proxy), to my office
network (which requires a proxy for Internet access).


On 24/04/2013, at 11:42 PM, Robert Newson <rnewson@apache.org> wrote:

> Q: "Why is the proxy configuration part of the replication document at all?
>
> A: Because each replication document is an independent entity.
>
> Making it global works for your case but not the general case. Why is
> your proxy configuration changing so rapidly?
>
> B.
>
> On 24 April 2013 08:31, Steven <stemail23@gmail.com> wrote:
>> OK, please excuse the bump, but really? No takers on this one?
>>
>> I'm surprised if I'm the only person encountering this situation. Is nobody
>> else working on a system with replication to laptop devices that use
>> multiple connections?
>>
>> Here's my biggest confusion: Why is the proxy configuration part of the
>> replication document at all? Surely a global proxy setting would make way
>> more sense, otherwise, the only way I can see around this issue is to tear
>> down the entire replication database document set, and rebuild it when I
>> detect a change in proxy configuration. That seems like madness!
>>
>> Any comments appreciated.
>>
>> Cheers.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Steven <stemail23@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Question about using the _replicator database to set up persistent
>>> replications from a machine that uses various different connections,
>>> sometimes behind a proxy, other times not.
>>>
>>> Question is: Given that the proxy server information is part of the
>>> replication document, the replication breaks (returns an error) when the
>>> connection changes to use a different, or no, proxy. How am I supposed to
>>> handle this situation?
>>>
>>> Also, an observation: when the replication document contains "proxy": null
>>> (in V1.3), the replication fails, this caught me out for a while, the
>>> replication document proxy parameter must be entirely absent to specify no
>>> proxy.
>>>