At our work we need to use a HTTP Proxy with Authentification. When I try to set the proxy settings with authentification like: # export http_proxy="user:passwd@proxy:port" wget and rsync fail to work. wget gives a error message like "Unsupported Scheme". Same goes with rsync. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set up the basic network 2. export http_proxy="user:passwd@proxy:port" 3. try wget www.gentoo.org Actual Results: I was not abled to install Gentoo Linux on the box. Expected Results: It should accept and use my proxy settings using the authentification information and let me flawlessy install Gentoo Linux on this box - like it did on any other machines @ home ;-) There are several threads in the "Gentoo installation" Forum about this issiue. Some french people mentioned a rsync authentification patch....
OK, I'm assigning this to the docs team. Docs team, we need to find a good solution for this... and it may end up being a "docs solution" (ie. documenting the right way to get rsync and wget to work thru a proxy)
For wget, with an already defined http_proxy="proxyserver:port" (no user/passwd): wget --proxy-user=foo --proxy-passwd=bar <url> However, rsync doesn't provide such an option.
I'm going to add this to the FAQ, not the installation guide (yet).
Created attachment 16207 [details, diff] Patch for proxy authentification against faq.xml
Reviewed by antifa http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.documentation/227 Committed.
Moving these so we can remove the "Install CD" component from "Gentoo Linux". I apologize to everyone for this spam, but according to the bugzilla developers, this is the only reasonable way to do this.
