Hi all. --- William Hooper <whooperhsd3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Works for me. Perhaps you can give us an example of what you are > trying > and what errors you get. Sure. Here's an example trying apt, yum, and up2date: # export http_proxy=http://fqdn.com:nnnn [proper proxy, username, ] # export proxy_username=username [ and password set ] # export proxy_passwd=password # apt-get update 0% [Working] 0% [Waiting for headers] 0% [Waiting for headers] 0% [Waiting for headers] 0% [Waiting for headers] 0% [Waiting for headers] 0% [Waiting for headers] 0% [Waiting for headers] 0% [Waiting for headers] Ign http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/2/i386 release 50% [Working] Err http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/2/i386/core pkglist 407 Proxy Authentication Required 7% [Working] Ign http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/2/i386/core release 14% [Working] Err http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/2/i386/updates pkglist 407 Proxy Authentication Required 14% [Working] Ign http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/2/i386/updates release 21% [Working] Err http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/2/i386/freshrpms pkglist 407 Proxy Authentication Required 21% [Working] Ign http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/2/i386/freshrpms release 28% [Working] Failed to fetch http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/2/i386/base/pkglist.core 407 Proxy Authentication Required Failed to fetch http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/2/i386/base/pkglist.update s 407 Proxy Authentication Required Failed to fetch http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/2/i386/base/pkglist.freshr pms 407 Proxy Authentication Required Reading Package Lists... 0% Reading Package Lists... 100% Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... 0% Building Dependency Tree... 0% Building Dependency Tree... 50% Building Dependency Tree... 50% Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. # yum update Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base retrygrab() failed for: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/2/i386/os/headers/head er.info Executing failover method failover: out of servers to try Error getting file http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/2/i38 6/os/headers/header.info [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 407: Proxy Authentication Required # up2date update http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/fedora-core-2 http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/updates-released-fc2 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1271, in ? sys.exit(main() or 0) File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 799, in main fullUpdate, dryRun=options.dry_run)) File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1147, in batchRun batch.run() File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateBatch.py", line 62, in run self.__findPackagesToUpdate() File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateBatch.py", line 97, in __findPackag esToUpdate plist.addGlobs(self.listOfGlobs) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/packageList.py", line 157, in addGlobs availList = rhnPackageInfo.getAvailablePackageList() File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnPackageInfo.py", line 219, in getAvaila blePackageList package_list = availablePackageList( File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnPackageInfo.py", line 153, in available PackageList progressCallback = progressCallback) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpcServer.py", line 112, in doCall ret = apply(method, args, kwargs) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/repoDirector.py", line 20, in listPackages return self.handlers[channel['type']].listPackages(channel, msgCallback, pro gressCallback) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpmSource.py", line 226, in listPackages msgCallback, progressCallback) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/repoBackends/yumRepo.py", line 205, in lis tPackages agent = "Up2date %s/Yum" % up2dateUtils.version()) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/repoBackends/urlUtils.py", line 324, in fe tchUrl endRange=end) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/repoBackends/urlUtils.py", line 117, in op en_resource return opener.open(request) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib2.py", line 326, in open '_open', req) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib2.py", line 306, in _call_chain result = func(*args) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib2.py", line 901, in http_open return self.do_open(httplib.HTTP, req) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib2.py", line 886, in do_open raise URLError(err) urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error (110, 'Connection timed out')> ------------------------------------------ Note the 407s, and the following from the bugzilla thread: Additional Comment #31 From Steve Bonds on 2004-03-25 20:08 After a nice tour of the python code I'm pretty convinced that the Yum backend in urlUtils.py simply does not support Basic HTTP authentication. The open_resource call (where fetchUrlAndWriteFD ends up) does not have any facility for a Proxy-Authentication: header. (In fact, a grep through the whole up2date and yum files shows that this string doesn't appear anywhere.) Thanks for the help! ===== -------------- Lets Go Canes! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
