[CentOS-devel] Using https repository through proxy
Ljubomir Ljubojevic
office at plnet.rs
Wed May 25 18:05:21 UTC 2011
Les Mikesell wrote:
> On 5/25/2011 7:33 AM, Julien.GILLES at sungard.com wrote:
>>> for various reasons I am trying to install a private repository for
>> Centos 5,
>>> and I would like to use HTTPS only connections. The servers must
>> access to this
>>> repository through a proxy.
>> Well, I found the solution, but I am a little puzzled...
>>
>> The proxy has to be defined using https:// instead of http://
>>
>> Yum could suppose himself that proxy is HTTPS aware and could try to
>> connect the proxy using the CONNECT command instead of trying this
>> insane "GET https://..."
>>
>> Hope this will help someone else facing the same problem a day !
>
> In a local setup you might be able to manage with ssh port-forwarding
> over ssh to a squid running on the server holding your repo. That way
> you can 'export http_proxy=http://localhost:local_port' and establish
> the ssh connection before running yum and the network traffic to the
> repository will be encrypted and only need port 22 open.
>
Vary nice solution Les.
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