On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 13:12:28 +0530, Dhruva Krishnamurthy wrote: > >>>>> On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 15:39:25 +1100, Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>>>> 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: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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