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Re: proxy returning empty hits only in emacs
From: |
Sam Halliday |
Subject: |
Re: proxy returning empty hits only in emacs |
Date: |
Thu, 12 Mar 2015 09:23:54 -0700 (PDT) |
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G2/1.0 |
Argh! 'twas emacs bug #17976
Debian defines ::1 as localhost and the ip6 equivalents. Emacs (in particular)
doesn't like this, but everything else is ok with it.
Workaround is to remove the mapping in /etc/hosts
On Thursday, 12 March 2015 15:22:30 UTC, Sam Halliday wrote:
> Updated with more info below...
>
> On Thursday, 12 March 2015 15:17:01 UTC, Sam Halliday wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I installed Debian Jessie over Ubuntu Vervet following a kernel update
> > disaster.
> >
> > However, following the change emacs (both 24.4) is unable to make use of my
> > proxy.
> >
> > I have a CNTLM proxy on localhost which does not require additional
> > authentication, e.g.
> >
> > export http_proxy=http://localhost:3128/
> > export https_proxy=https://localhost:3128/
> > export no_proxy="localhost,*.my-company.com"
> > export ftp_proxy=${http_proxy}
> >
> > which is picked up by the X environment, and emacs appears to use it
> > automatically because issuing a `(package-refresh-contents)` gives
> >
> > Importing package-keyring.gpg...done
> > Using a proxy for http...
> > Contacting host: localhost:3128
> > Failed to download `gnu' archive.
> > Failed to download `melpa' archive.
> > nil
> >
> > However I can't get any more debugging information than this, despite
> > turning on (setq debug-on-error t). I'd like to know *why* it is failing so
> > that I can fix it.
> >
> > I also tried running url-copy-file:
> >
> > (url-copy-file "http://google.com/" "google.html")
> >
> > but this simply creates an empty file.
> >
> > The proxy is working fine for everything else on the system (and, except
> > for a few special cases, everything picks up the envvars).
> >
> > I've even tried this (which is pretty pointless, because emacs is clearly
> > using the correct proxy):
> >
> > (setq url-proxy-services
> > '(("no_proxy" . "^\\(localhost\\|10.*\\)")
> > ("http" . "localhost:3128")
> > ("https" . "localhost:3128")))
> >
> > as expected, it changes nothing.
> >
> > Is there something else I'm missing?
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Sam
>
>
> Using
>
> (defun print-url (url)
> (url-retrieve url (lambda (a) (print a))))
>
> (print-url "http://google.com")
>
> I get the error
>
> Contacting host: localhost:3128
> #<buffer *http localhost:3128*-981030>
> (:error (error connection-failed "failed with code 111
> " :host "localhost" :service 3128))
>
> but a telnet session to localhost:3128 is perfectly fine.
>
> Very bizarre! Ideas welcome.