up2date doesn't play nice with proxy servers?

[Paul Nasrat]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 11:40:17AM -0500, Timothy Ryan Bierer wrote:
> Up2date seems to be having a hard time getting through our proxy.  The 
> related websites and such are not blocked by the institution, and I was 
> wondering if anybody else was having that problem/how they fixed it.  
> Thanks!

You may be hit by https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=102272

as root (so don't go via consolehelper)
export http_proxy=http://my.proxy:3128 
up2date -u

Paul