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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: HTTP access to CVS
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Jan Hudec |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: HTTP access to CVS |
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Tue, 1 Mar 2005 08:35:29 +0100 |
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On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 13:12:28 +0530, Dhruva Krishnamurthy wrote:
> >>>>> On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 15:39:25 +1100, Matthew Palmer <address@hidden> said:
>
> mp> On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 07:46:00PM +0530, Dhruva Krishnamurthy wrote:
> >> Hello, Is there someone using TLA over proxy to access GNU [Emacs]
> >> repositories? I changed my job and have now landed myself in a company with
> >> a stricter firewall! I have access to internet (which is not given to
> >> all!!) and can make use of HTTP port only over a PROXY server. I never
> >> imagined that I would have to struggle so much to get access to a GNU
> >> project. Changing jobs has been jumping from frying pan (tolerant firewall)
> >> to (strict) fire (wall). Any help is really appreciated.
>
> mp> Does
>
> mp> http_proxy="http://user:address@hidden:port/" tla get <whatever>
^
I believe this must NOT be
there. It should not
matter, but some libraries
are not tolerant in what
they accept and choke on
this. I believe libneon is
one of them.
> mp> work for you? I haven't seen the need to try it for Arch myself, but most
> mp> HTTP libraries will honour the http_proxy environment variable.
>
> The above setting does not work for me. I tried it and I get the following
> error: "ill formated http proxy port number from $http_proxy"
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