From 42bc3958e26cf6778ba52c476795b7d05be58ce8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nico Golde <nion@debian.org>
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 13:36:21 +0000
Subject: NFUs

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/secure-testing@8997 e39458fd-73e7-0310-bf30-c45bca0a0e42
---
 bin/report-vuln | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

(limited to 'bin/report-vuln')

diff --git a/bin/report-vuln b/bin/report-vuln
index fb42e7713f..7f2b0db8c4 100755
--- a/bin/report-vuln
+++ b/bin/report-vuln
@@ -11,8 +11,9 @@
 #     mutt -i $TMPFILE submit@bugs.debian.org
 #     rm $TMPFILE
 # }
+# export http_proxy if you need to use an http proxy to report bugs
 
-import sys, re, httplib
+import sys, re, httplib, os
 
 def gen_index(ids):
 	ret = ''
@@ -22,18 +23,30 @@ def gen_index(ids):
 
 	return ret
 
+def do_httpconnect(id):
+	proxy = os.getenv('http_proxy').lstrip('http://')
+	url = '/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=' + id
+	host = 'cve.mitre.org'
+	if proxy != None:
+		host = proxy
+		url = 'http://cve.mitre.org' + url
+
+	try:
+		conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(host)
+		conn.request('GET', url)
+		resp = conn.getresponse()
+	except Exception, e:
+		error('on doing HTTP request' + str(e))
+
+	return resp
+
 # this is a hack that parses the cve id description from mitre
 def get_cve(id):
 	desc = False
 	r = re.compile('.*<th\ colspan=.*>Description<.*')
 	tag = re.compile('.*</?tr>.*')
-	try:
-		conn = httplib.HTTPConnection('cve.mitre.org')
-		conn.request('GET', '/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=' + id)
-		resp = conn.getresponse()
-		ret = ''
-	except Exception, e:
-		error('on doing HTTP request' + str(e))
+	ret = ''
+	resp = do_httpconnect(id)
 
 	for line in resp.read().rsplit('\n'):
 		if r.match(line):
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