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[EMonk]

autopatcher, on Jul 21 2008, 02:08 PM, said:

Yes proxy support in apup is the best solution, I believe there are multiple user requests for this so hopefully it will be in a version soon

From the manual unfortunately desproxy does not appear support NTLM authentication, so this solution will probably not work for you

Being behind a very restrictive corporate firewall I found this thread very interesting. After a bit of messing around I finally found a solution that lets me use APUP to fetch files for me.

Conclusions:

1) While desproxy is a great tool it's not really useful to us. desproxy is for tunneling non-HTTP connections through an HTTP/1.1 proxy. Since APUP uses HTTP for everything, that's not a problem.

2) The proxy I have to use to get out of our corporate intranet uses NTLM authentication, which can be nicely handled by NTLMAPS without resorting to desproxy or similar. NTLMAPS handles the authentication issues as well as forwarding requests from domains aliased in my hosts file.

3) Simple proxy support in APUP is way up my most wanted list. It doesn't need to handle NTLM authentication, since NTLMAPS will do that for me. But having to modify my hosts file every time I want to fetch an updated set of files with AP - and every few minutes when the local Group Policy resets it - are a bit of a pain.

[Cristiano]

yes, it would, but we don't do magic and we lost our software developer some time ago. so, basically, the develop of apup himself is on hold. but if someone has skills enough to add that, we are open

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[darthyoda6]

So then someone still has access to the source code? Not that I'm asking for a copy

[Cristiano]

yes, we do have access to the source code

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[EMonk]

Cristiano, on 22 April 2009 - 09:41 AM, said:

yes, we do have access to the source code

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What was the development environment? Are you open to opening APUP for development to fix some cosmetics as well as implementing Proxy handling, etc?

There are plenty of people interested in furthering the project, and I'm sure we can find a programmer among us who is up to the challenge.

[Cristiano]

> I'm sure we can find a programmer among us who is up to the challenge
we are trying find one in many years. so far, no luck. the very few ones that tried made any contact about it have vanished like the wind.

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[EMonk]

Cristiano, on 12 October 2009 - 11:50 AM, said:

> I'm sure we can find a programmer among us who is up to the challenge
we are trying find one in many years. so far, no luck. the very few ones that tried made any contact about it have vanished like the wind.

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I guess that going the Open Source route for APUP (not AutoPatcher) is not something you're interested in? APUP on SourceForge might get some more interest.

I'd volunteer but (wife + 4 * kids) = (0 * free_time).

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EMonk said:

There are plenty of people interested in furthering the project, and I'm sure we can find a programmer among us...
I'd volunteer but...

I have to admit I find comments like these more humorous the more I see them. The AutoPatcher / APUP team has always considered all
serious offers to get the software updated and to add the much needed missing features but the story ends the same - NOTHING!, so we
keep waiting and hoping. I'm sure someone will eventually have the time and skills but I hope it isn't by then too late.

The project is after all volunteer and we are happy for the time the past developers / maintainers have given but unfortunately they
had to move on but, thankfully we still have a few release maintainers doing good work

[Cristiano]

oh well, i'm really out of time lately, but i'm also working in a few extra things related to this project, despite my lack of time. first of all, a few guys of good will makes all difference. you know, to this job, isn't required that you work every single day. second: this is cooperative work. and i'm proud to announce that 2 guys of good will are making the difference. one of them is currently working into the 2 main issues that apup has:
1 - lack of proxy support;
2 - the broken downloader engine.

one of those guys of very good will is working on the implementation of proxy support and also replace the current engine by curl, that will fix a lot of issues that we have with the current version.

also, this another guy of good will is helping us with an major issue that we have faced so far: the kaspersky 2010 issue. this guy have found and we now have an new beta that should fix. as an bonus, he has implemented resizable window (apup was really needing this, don't yours think?)

as we already said more than once: make the difference

and really, really thanks to those that helped us. your names will remain private until yours request that, but yours have our greatest gratitude

this new beta will be public in a few minutes, i just need upload it first

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Edited by Cristiano, 18 October 2009 - 01:03 AM.