15.x: Allow running console.php to apply profiles from behind a proxy (to run new R script to check errors when testing the application on all Profiles on several tiki branches)

• Feature request
• Support request
• Community projects
• Dogfood on a *.tiki.org site
• Less than 30-minutes fix

Hi:

I've set up an R script (.Rmd: with R markdown to be run through Knitr) to check the application of all Tiki Profiles (the ones available in the Profiles Wizard since Tiki12, at least) on several tiki branches on your own localhost, to search for error messages, and aggregate that information for easy monitoring. It can be extended to send an email when regressions show up, etc.
I developed that over the weekend from home, and even if in beta stage, it currently works.
See: https://github.com/xavidp/TikiProfilesTester

However, I cloned the git repo at work, where we are behind a proxy, and console.php cannot apply profiles from there through the commandline. Through the GUI I always have to add the proxy info to Tiki first in order to be able to list profiles and apply them , etc.

root@pentinella:/var/www/html/trunk# php console.php p:a Voting_System
Profile not found.
root@pentinella:/var/www/html/trunk#

proxy info seem to be defined at ./trunk/lib/tikilib.php (line 185 onwards)

As a workaround you can probably use a local profile (on a folder on the server) example, if you create a file:

/some/path/set_local_proxy.yml with the content:

---
preferences:
   use_proxy: y
   proxy_host: 127.0.0.1
   proxy_port: 8080
   proxy_user: user
   proxy_pass: password

Then you can use:

php console.php p:a set_local_proxy /some/path

As a preparation step to set the prefs, and then the profile:apply will pick the proxy from the preference.

This bug has been demonstrated on show2.tiki.org

Please demonstrate your bug on show2.tiki.org