Brad Beyenhof wrote:
Clint Dilks wrote:
http_proxy understands the format <username>:<password>@<my proxy>:<proxy port> so in this case the @ is probably being interpreted as server identifier. I would try enclosing the user name in single quotes or adding a \ before the @. If these do not work your only option may be to contact the proxy admin and obtain a username without the @
If putting '@' to escape the at sign didn't work, have you tried using the URL escape code of '%40' to represent it?
I was really curious about this, so I googled around a bit. I don't know about the support in the environment variables, but from what I'm reading, the "%40" encoding should definitely work if you use the proxy variables in yum.conf, ie: proxy=http://proxyserver.somedomain.local:portnum/ proxy_username=username%40stuffafteratsymbol proxy_password=password
This should at a minimum be true for CentOS 4.5 since I cracked open the python on my box to see exactly what the proxy code was doing :)
-Shawn