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Hi,

I have been trying to get up2date working with the proxy that the university have provided

to no luck has it worked it just starts to search then says my machine is up2date even tho

I know its not.

I have tryed setting the enviroment varibles to the proxy this helps elinks to work

but when I try yum it just crys.

Code:
Setting up Update Process

Setting up repositories

Traceback (most recent call last):

 File "/usr/bin/yum", line 15, in ?

   yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])

 File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 72, in main

   result, resultmsgs = do()

 File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 419, in doCommands

   return self.updatePkgs()

 File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 877, in updatePkgs

   self.doRepoSetup()

 File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 72, in doRepoSetup

   yum.YumBase.doRepoSetup(self, thisrepo=thisrepo)

 File "__init__.py", line 208, in doRepoSetup

 File "repos.py", line 516, in baseurlSetup

 File "repos.py", line 768, in getMirrorList

 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 444, in urlopen

   return default_grabber.urlopen(url, **kwargs)

 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 575, in urlopen

   return self._retry(opts, retryfunc, url)

 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 547, in _retry

   return apply(func, (opts,) + args, {})

 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 574, in retryfunc

   return URLGrabberFileObject(url, filename=None, opts=opts)

 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 727, in __init__

   self._do_open()

 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 794, in _do_open

   fo, hdr = self._make_request(req, opener)

 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 885, in _make_request

   fo = opener.open(req)

 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 358, in open

   response = self._open(req, data)

 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 376, in _open

   '_open', req)

 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 337, in _call_chain

   result = func(*args)

 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 573, in <lambda>

   lambda r, proxy=url, type=type, meth=self.proxy_open: \

 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 580, in proxy_open

   if '@' in host:

TypeError: iterable argument required

is there any other methods to try

first one that grabs me is an ssh tunnel?

god i can hear my network admin crying.... he'll hate me for telling you!

due to the fact of the security issues when a SSL based transfer is made the proxy simple opens the connect and doesn't tamper with it (correctly). Needless to say this is a huge hole in the proxy, so all you do it tunnel through.. :P

currently or net admin is out smarting the users though, basically by forcing the issue with which port the SSL transfers can be made to, this stops bt/mule etc type connections.

anyway.. im sure other ways exist, but ;)

Hi znx,

Thanks for the reply :)I aint been on for abit due to my network connection

at university. How could you tunnel with SSH andyum? could you give me

and example please.

OOOooops ;)

SSL tunnel .. hehehe

my suggestion is to simply specify the SSL port.. and connect via that.. so all your http connections should be https

therefore any proxy requests should be made to https .. not http.. this way you should get through ...

sorry for the confusion ;)

do you want to update your fedora ???

in that case open a konsole and type

Code:
su -c 'yum install update'

and it will update all the packages !!

Quote:Hi,

I have been trying to get up2date working with the proxy that the university have provided

How have you set the proxy, and on what user account?

try: echo $HTTP_PROXY and paste the output here.

HI

You could add the proxy settings to users .bashrc

Code:
export http_proxy=http://<user>:<password>@<proxy>:<port>/

xDamox

znx

xDamox

znx

bashphoenux

Dungeon-Dave

minigeek