Serguey Zefirov <sergu...@gmail.com> writes: > Why there is no switch to turn off any use of proxy in cabal-install? > Or to supply username/password pair in command line. > > I have a strange situation: wget works like charm ignoring proxy (I > downloaded Cabal and cabal-install to investigate the problem using > wget), Firefox works like charm igoring proxy, and only cabal cannot > access anything, because it follows proper proxy protocol and our > proxy requires username and password.
"Ignoring proxy"? > And I don't know of proper way to supply them through http_proxy > environment variable. export http_proxy="http://${username}:${passwo...@${proxy_url}" > PS > And while I am on it, I'd like to suggest that cabal-install should > read common options like credentials from environment or configuration > file. Which credentials? I thought that the proxy stuff was how the system connected to the net, etc. and cabal-install just used the system's connection... (I could be wrong however). -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe