[Tfug] Eclipse add-ons

[Leo Przybylski]

What you could do is setup a proxy and configure Eclipse to use the
proxy. Then the proxy could just dump it's request information. You
could leave the proxy disconnected as well. This would simulate the
same behavior as the machine being completely disconnected because it
still is. Only you have a proxy logging all the request traffic. You
could alternatively configure the proxy to log traffic from the
Eclipse user agent to a special location somewhere.

Leo

On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Bexley Hall <bexley401 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to suss-out the hidden details of the eclipse
> add-on/plug-in process.
>
> I don't allow development machines to talk to the outside
> world.  Period.
>
> So, adding plug-ins requires me to manually download the
> appropriate packages/jars, SneakerNet them to the system(s)
> in question and then install them from these "archives" (in
> eclipse-speak).
>
> Ideally, what I would like to do is tell Eclipse to fetch
> whatever it needs even though the machine(s) has no IP
> connectivity with the necessary update sites.  Then,
> peruse some sort of log file that tattles on where Eclipse
> was *trying* to go, what it was trying to fetch, etc.  And,
> with this information, mimic the operation manually from
> a "Internet-connected" host.
>
> (Yes, I suppose I could monitor network traffic but that's
> pretty crude.  Or, set up a disposable host and let it
> update itself.  Then, pull the parts off that host and move
> them to the *real* host.)
>
> I haven't even been able to come up with a productive search
> query to locate other information on this process!
>
> (Yet another example of the "Check Engine" mentality that is
> permeating this industry/technology  :< )
>
> Thx,
> --don
>
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