[CentOS] yum behinf authenticated proxy

kalinix calin.kalinix.cosma at gmail.com
Mon Feb 12 14:30:57 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 14:12 +0000, Mário Gamito wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > 
> > http_proxy=http://user:passwd@proxy.foo.com:portnumber
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > for your reference:
> > http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=yum+authenticated
> > +proxy&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
> 
> Yes, i've searched google and found that before posting here.
> The problem is that yum now doesn't work anymore:
> 
> "[root at localhost ~]# yum update
> Setting up Update Process
> Setting up repositories
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ?
>      yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
>    File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 97, in main
>      result, resultmsgs = do()
>    File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 477, in doCommands
>      return self.updatePkgs()
>    File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 955, in updatePkgs
>      self.doRepoSetup()
>    File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 71, in doRepoSetup
>      yum.YumBase.doRepoSetup(self, thisrepo=thisrepo)
>    File "__init__.py", line 225, in doRepoSetup
>    File "repos.py", line 533, in baseurlSetup
>    File "repos.py", line 842, in getMirrorList
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 
> 583, in urlopen
>      return default_grabber.urlopen(url, **kwargs)
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 
> 741, in urlopen
>      return self._retry(opts, retryfunc, url)
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 
> 702, in _retry
>      r = apply(func, (opts,) + args, {})
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 
> 740, in retryfunc
>      return URLGrabberFileObject(url, filename=None, opts=opts)
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 
> 893, in __init__
>      self._do_open()
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 
> 960, in _do_open
>      fo, hdr = self._make_request(req, opener)
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 
> 1059, in _make_request
>      fo = opener.open(req)
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib2.py", line 326, in open
>      '_open', req)
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib2.py", line 306, in _call_chain
>      result = func(*args)
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib2.py", line 491, in <lambda>
>      lambda r, proxy=url, type=type, meth=self.proxy_open: \
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib2.py", line 498, in proxy_open
>      if '@' in host:
> TypeError: iterable argument required
> "
> 
> Regards,
> Mário Gamito
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is "user" something like user at domain.com? 



If yes, you may want to try

http_proxy=http://user%40domain.com:passwd@proxy.foo.com:portnumber"


(you may find more answers in
http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=742&page=1&pp=15

just follow the tread)


HTH




Calin

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