Yum proxy problem

[Jeff Vian]

On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 22:41 +0530, Sumeet Pal Singh wrote:
> Hi
> I installed FC4 and tried to configure yum to work. I am behind a
> proxy server which requires authentication. 
> My /etc/yum.conf file is 
> 
> [main]
> cachedir=/var/cache/yum
> debuglevel=2
> logfile=/var/log/yum.log
> pkgpolicy=newest
> distroverpkg=redhat-release
> tolerant=1
> exactarch=1
> retries=20
> obsoletes=1
> gpgcheck=0
> 
> # The proxy server - proxy server:port number
> proxy=http://vsnlproxy.iitk.ac.in:3128/
> # The account details for yum connections
> proxy_username=spsingh
> proxy_password=password
> 
> I had a password with % in it. When trying yum update I got HTTP Error
> 407 ie proxy authentication required. When i tried to search for the
> problem on net, I came across this
> http://beau.org/pipermail/whitebox-users/2004-March/000781.html
> which shows that the guy had problem connecting because of special
> character which yum could not understand/encrypt.
> I did the same.Changed my password so that it had alphanumeric only
> and yum worked!!!!!
> Wget, apt (on ubuntu5.10 and FC4) used to work with old password. 
> Is this a problem with yum. Can someone please test it out!! Also can
> I submit it as bug?
> 
Not a problem but a design of the program.
% is a special character to the shell and it must be escaped so it is
passed literally or not used in most of these circumstances.


> I had same problem while installing gentoo previous month. it did not
> emerge and finally I gave up the installation. Can someone please test
> this and let me know. i will appreciate it. My email id is
> sumeetpalsingh at gmail.com
> 
> Thanks in Advance.
> 
> 
> 
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