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.

Does

http_proxy="http://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:port/" tla get <whatever>

work for you?  I haven't seen the need to try it for Arch myself, but most
HTTP libraries will honour the http_proxy environment variable.

- Matt

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