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2013 Apr 04
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Changing HTTP proxy configurations at run time
...t be adjusted at a later stage. (See also the comment in ?download.file). This caused some frustration as I wasn't able to use http functionality in a running R session after moving to an environment with a different/no proxy server.
After some digging I found that this behaviour was caused by RxmlNanoHTTPInit() in src/modules/internet/nanohttp.c, which after its first call refuses to reinitialise the proxy configuration. It does so by setting a variable 'initialized' to 1, and checking whether the string 'proxy' is non-NULL.
I have made a small modification to have RxmlNanoHTTPInit() ig...