BuildOS - What is status of Proxy?

[beluczywo]

Thanks to those who work on BuildOS.

The latest release here http://ppckitchen.org/joomla/index.p...page&Itemid=55
mentions "added firewall/proxy support". I've played and played with the parameters in the updater directory (settings.ini) and can't get any proxy stuff to work.

[PROXY]
type=automatic
username=
password=
http=
ftp=
autoconfigurl=

I assume these are also used when BuildOS itself executes (I can't find anywhere different where there would be another set of parameters for BuildOS separate from updater). Our firewall is a standard http proxy with basic authentication.

Can someone confirm if this functionality is supposed to work yet, and possibly give a short writeup on expected syntax?
Options for type
Do you include the "http://" in the http line?
Does the port need to be there (:80)?
Do you need quotes around things?
Can you speficify auto in addition to the proxy address or does one supercede the other?

If not yet implemented, is there a time estimate?
Pending implementation, is there an ini file workaround to bypass the login code that could be used while the kinks are worked out and this option removed once proxy is verified to work? (I've read the whole flame war on this topic and I'm not asking why or questioning the need, just asking if there is a way to function standalone while development of this feature/requirement is ongoing).

Thanks -- not trying to nag, I understand very well the fact that this is "free" and that it is a labor of love. I am very happy with having anything at all, it's just that it was so nice to do some hobby stuff during lunchtime and not have such an impact on "family time". I miss being able to work from behind a firewall. You guys have spoiled me!