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• [tutorial v1.1_042] Copy HTTP manual proxy to HTTPS manual proxy (diff)

[tutorial v1.1_043)] A conditional hidden family

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Clone and install

To test this tutorial, you need to download this repository and install Rougail:

git clone -b 1.1 https://forge.cloud.silique.fr/stove/rougail-tutorials.git
cd rougail-tutorials
python -m venv venv_rougail
. venv_rougail/bin/activate
pip install rougail-cli rougail-output-exporter rougail-output-doc rougail-user-data-yaml

Then switch to the tutorial page:

git switch --detach v1.1_043

Structure

.
└── firefox
    ├── 00-proxy.yml
    ├── 10-manual.yml
    └── 20-manual.yml

Contents of the firefox/20-manual.yml file

%YAML 1.2
---
version: 1.1

manual:

  use_for_https: true  # Also use this proxy for HTTPS

  https_proxy:
    description: HTTPS Proxy
    hidden:
      variable: _.use_for_https

    address:
      description: HTTPS address
      type: domainname
      params:
        allow_ip: true

    port:
      description: HTTPS Port
      type: port
      default: 8080
...

Let's generate the documentation

rougail -m firefox/ -o doc

Variable	Description
proxy_mode choice mandatory	Configure Proxy Access to the Internet. Choices: - No proxy ← (default) - Auto-detect proxy settings for this network - Use system proxy settings - Manual proxy configuration - Automatic proxy configuration URL

Manual proxy configuration

manual

disabled

Disabled: when the variable "proxy_mode" hasn't the value "Manual proxy configuration"

HTTP Proxy

manual.http_proxy

Variable	Description
manual.http_proxy.address domainname mandatory	HTTP address. Validator: the domain name can be an IP
manual.http_proxy.port port mandatory	HTTP Port. Validators: - well-known ports (1 to 1023) are allowed - registred ports (1024 to 49151) are allowed - private ports (greater than 49152) are allowed Default: 8080

Variable	Description
manual.use_for_https boolean mandatory	Also use this proxy for HTTPS. Default: true

HTTPS Proxy

manual.https_proxy

hidden

Hidden: when the variable "manual.use_for_https" has the value "true"

Variable	Description
manual.https_proxy.address domainname mandatory	HTTPS address. Validator: the domain name can be an IP
manual.https_proxy.port port mandatory	HTTPS Port. Validators: - well-known ports (1 to 1023) are allowed - registred ports (1024 to 49151) are allowed - private ports (greater than 49152) are allowed Default: 8080

User datas

Example 1

config/01/config.yml

---
proxy_mode: Manual proxy configuration
manual:
  http_proxy:
    address: http.proxy.net
    port: 3128
  use_for_https: false
  https_proxy:
    address: https.proxy.net

Output

rougail -m firefox/ -u yaml -yf config/01/config.yml

🔔 WARNINGS
┗━━ the value "3128" is an invalid port for "manual.http_proxy.port" (HTTP Port), which is not a string, it will be ignored when loading from the YAML file "config/01/config.yml"
╭────────────── Caption ───────────────╮
│ Variable Default value               │
│          Modified value              │
│          (⏳ Original default value) │
╰──────────────────────────────────────╯
Variables:
┣━━ 📓 Configure Proxy Access to the Internet: Manual proxy configuration ◀ loaded from the YAML file "config/01/config.yml" (⏳ No proxy)
┗━━ 📂 Manual proxy configuration
    ┣━━ 📂 HTTP Proxy
    ┃   ┣━━ 📓 HTTP address: http.proxy.net ◀ loaded from the YAML file "config/01/config.yml"
    ┃   ┗━━ 📓 HTTP Port: 8080
    ┣━━ 📓 Also use this proxy for HTTPS: false ◀ loaded from the YAML file "config/01/config.yml" (⏳ true)
    ┗━━ 📂 HTTPS Proxy
        ┣━━ 📓 HTTPS address: https.proxy.net ◀ loaded from the YAML file "config/01/config.yml"
        ┗━━ 📓 HTTPS Port: 8080

Example 2

config/02/config.yml

---
proxy_mode: Manual proxy configuration
manual:
  http_proxy:
    address: http.proxy.net
    port: 3128
  use_for_https: true

Output

rougail -m firefox/ -u yaml -yf config/02/config.yml

🔔 WARNINGS
┗━━ the value "3128" is an invalid port for "manual.http_proxy.port" (HTTP Port), which is not a string, it will be ignored when loading from the YAML file "config/02/config.yml"
🛑 ERRORS
┗━━ The following variables are inaccessible but are empty and mandatory:
    ┗━━ manual.https_proxy.address (HTTPS address)

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