All HTTP Fetches fail, only FTP working

Melissa Reid mreid at pobox.com
Mon Jan 14 08:50:23 PST 2008


ballagas at gmail.com (Tico Ballagas) sent forth on 1/14/08:

>Hello-
>
>I'm having a strange problem where all of the fetch attempts using  
>HTTP fail, but all FTP work fine (see output below).  Any ideas what  
>might be going wrong?

When that happened to me, it turned out that something had set the
environment variable 'http_proxy' to something bogus, and curl was
honoring that. I never did figure out what was doing that; I wound
up having to manually unset it in my .bashrc.

Melissa Reid


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