On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 09:41, Kraszewski, Marcin wrote: > yum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <> wrote on 7 January, 2004 18:18: > > > On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 15:59, Kraszewski, Marcin wrote: > >> Hi > >> > [...] > >> I am behind a proxy, so I created http_proxy variable. When I use > >> just the "proxy_name:port#", I get the above error. I checked the > >> archives and found a way to add userID and password, but when I tried > >> providing user:password in that variable, I got an error about an > >> invalid proxy port number. My proxy userID contains an '@' character, > >> I think that causes the port number error. Is there a way to make yum > >> client work on my network? TIA. > >> > > > pull down the latest yum daily from: > > http://linux.duke.edu/yum/download/2.0/daily/ > > > > then set keepalive=0 > > under [main] in your yum.conf > > > > tell me if it fixes the problem. > > > > thanks > > -sv > > Hi, Seth > > I was having network problems yesterday, but when all was well (networkwise) > the error I got was: > > [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 407: Proxy Authorization Required > > I tried to add "proxy-userid:passwd" to the http_proxy variable, but it does > not work. My proxy userID contains an '@' character, so the variable looks > like that: > http_proxy="http://userid@domain:passwd@my-proxy:8080/"; and I get the > following error: > > [Errno 7] HTTP Error (InvalidURL): nonnumeric port: 'passwd@my-proxy:8080' > > I did what you suggested (updated yum and edited yum.conf), but am still > getting the same errors. Is there a way around that problem? TIA > /me grumbles at urllib this is a bug in urllib I'm fairly certain. It's a known bug, I think there might be a way around it but I can't recall right now. You'll have to deal with it right now, I'm afraid. -sv
