Michael Stenner wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 09:42:28AM -0500, Boex,Matthew W. wrote: > >>seth, >> >>thanks. i forgot... i did try that one too. i just retried with >>your proxy setting and got this error... >> >>Gathering package information from servers >>Getting headers from: Red Hat Linux 7.3 base >>Error getting file >>http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/7.3/i3 >>86/headers/header.info >>[Errno 4] IOError: [Errno socket error] nonnumeric port > > > I know why this error happens. It looks like the urllib in 1.5.2 does > not deal well with user:pass in proxies. In fact, it doesn't deal > with them at all. I don't know how about 2.2. I don't have access to > a password-based proxy (or do I?) to test on. In any event, we're not > likely to work on a solution for yum 1.x, so you'll need to either > find a way to upgrade (I THINK this is discussed on this list in the > archives) or not use a password-based proxy. > > I will make password-based proxies a priority in urlgrabber TNV, > although it may already Just Work. > > -Michael You do through OIT. Check out http://www.oit.duke.edu/remote_access/proxy.html
