fyi: proxy and yum or up2date must put authentication in proxy fi eld

[Jim Cornette]

Barker Michael-r43496 wrote:
> FYI on using yum or up2date, the proxy_user and proxy_passwd variables and their GUI equivalents do not work trying to get through our proxy.

     To get through our proxy these values must be set in the proxy 
address: http://username:password@proxy:port
> 
> Went through all the bugzilla reports, including patching some python file, blah blah blah and didn't see this anywhere - this was the trick.
> 
> If you want to see the error I was getting, someone else posted it this asian language page, the rest of which I can't read:
> http://www.linuxml.net/pipermail/fedora/2003-November/000117.html
> 
> 

I had an error trying to use an http repo with an error 401. I didn't 
have the problem with using an ftp repository though.

Is your problem with ftp also or just with http?

Jim