295b9dbab341deac96c7f6166bea56f0fc7fa770 max Fri Feb 12 05:38:32 2021 -0800 changes after code review, refs #26951. Since all README files were merged into mirrorManual.txt in 2016, to avoid further confusion, I am removing them now. I manually merged all changes made since then (just 3-4 changes) into mirrorManual.txt now. mirrorManual.txt is automatically converted to https://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/mirrorManual.html by the makefile in mirrorDocs. This makes sure that we have installation instructions that can be read with vi or less and at the same time we have a nice html file that is easy to read, looks like official documentation and is indexed by Google well. The big no.1 advantage of mirrorManual.txt is that the sections have an order in increasing complexity and the user knows where to start. The old README files had no order at all and the names were misleading (e.g. quickstart was not about a quickstart) diff --git src/product/README.proxy src/product/README.proxy deleted file mode 100644 index 610040d..0000000 --- src/product/README.proxy +++ /dev/null @@ -1,40 +0,0 @@ -net.c now has support for http(s) proxy servers -which may be required by some installations -to get through the firewall to external resources -such as (but not limited to) for example -bigWig or bigBed data via custom track bigDataUrl. - -One must add the setting "httpProxy", "httpsProxy", and "ftpProxy" to hg.conf. - -httpProxy=http://someProxyServer:3128 -httpsProxy=http://someProxyServer:3128 -ftpProxy=ftp://127.0.0.1:2121 - -If the proxy server requires BASIC authentication - -httpProxy=http://user:password@someProxyServer:3128 -httpsProxy=http://user:password@someProxyServer:3128 - -where user and password may need URL-encoding -if they contain special characters such as -":" and "@". - -If you wish to exclude domains from proxying, -create a comma-separated list of domain-suffixes. -If a domain ends with an entry from this list, the proxy will be skipped. - -noProxy=ucsc.edu,mit.edu,localhost,127.0.0.1 - -The httpProxy and httpsProxy URLs should use http protocol, not https. -One reason for this is that https sessions would end up doubly-encoded. - -If you are debugging your proxy configuration, you can use this hg.conf setting -to turn on logging to stderr. - -logProxy=on - -It is not meant to be left on in production. -Your proxy server should have its own logging features. - -net.c also responds to environment variables http_proxy, https_proxy, ftp_proxy, no_proxy, and log_proxy. -