On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 05:46:37PM +0100, mbylander@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > It's set in both the shell and in yum.conf. wget works fine using the shell > variables, so it is presumably correct there (I had to quote the backslash, > obviously.) This proxy stuff is really my domain (and the bane of my existence), but I'm traveling and will be for probably another week. Probably the best thing to do at this point is to a) get yourself a little test directory b) write a short script to fetch a file using urlgrabber c) copy the relevant libraries into that directory (urlgrabber stuff, urllib2, httplib) d) edit your local copies to dump info about what's going on That may seem daunting, but it's really not so bad. If you don't mind the wait, I'll be getting back into this stuff probably in a week or so. -Michael -- Michael D. Stenner mstenner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ECE Department and Optical Sciences Center 520-626-1619 University of Arizona ECE 524G