Unable to connect with YUM through proxy server

Vivek J. Patankar vivek.patankar at gmail.com
Sat Sep 8 00:36:00 UTC 2007


Lets Go Canes wrote:
> --- "Vivek J. Patankar" <vivek.patankar at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 	HTTP_PROXY variable has never worked for me.
>>
>> You mention that your proxy is an ISA Server. Is it authenticated? 
>> Getting yum to work with an authenticated proxy is a pain. I
>> personally 
>> have never been able to get it to work with an authenticated MS ISA
>> server.
> 
> I use "http_proxy=http://user:password@proxy:port" with an
> authenticating proxy.  Of course you have to replace the elements
> with your info.

Been there, done that, never worked. :-(
But it doesn't matter now (for me atleast). MS ISA got kicked out in 
favour of Squid. :-)

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Regards,
विवेक ज. पाटणकर (Vivek J. Patankar)

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