Re: elpa & proxy authentication

[Tim Visher]

Hi Luca,

You need to provide more info about your environment.

I know when I needed to do this the only solution I was able to come
up with was to use the http_proxy environment variable. Not sure why
what you did wouldn't work but all of the various tools I use,
including emacs, seem to honor the environment variable.i

On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@infinito.it> wrote:
> Hi,
> I believe this is trivial but I cannot find a solution: I'm behind an
> http proxy that requires authentication, and I cannot install packages
> using elpa.
> I've placed in my .emacs file something like:
>
> (setq url-proxy-services '(("no_proxy" . "work\\\\.com")
>                            ("http" . "<user>:<password>@<proxy>:<port>")))
>
> and the first time I try to refresh the package list I got prompted
> for the username, that is the same I specified, and for the password,
> and then a generic error "unable to download package gnu" appears.
> Then I try to download and install a package, I'm prompted again for
> username and password for the proxy (and this time the username is the
> one I'm running emacs within, not the one specified in the
> configuration file) and Emacs still gives me an error that cannot
> download: "Error during download request: proxy authentication
> required".
>
> Any idea?
> Thanks,
> Luca
>