socks proxy

[leelavati narlikar]

Thanks, Josh and Nox, for your replies. The problem is I have to use socks and I don't think there's an env variable that MacPorts honors for that. macports.conf has all other proxy settings, but not socks..

--- On Tue, 12/22/09, nox <nox at macports.org> wrote:

> From: nox <nox at macports.org>
> Subject: Re: socks proxy
> To: "Joshua Root" <jmr at macports.org>
> Cc: "leelavati narlikar" <leelavatin at yahoo.com>, macports-users at lists.macosforge.org
> Date: Tuesday, December 22, 2009, 5:27 PM
> Doesn't MacPorts just honor the
> http_proxy environment variable?
> 
> Le 22 déc. 2009 à 07:28, Joshua Root a écrit :
> 
> > On 2009-12-22 16:16 , leelavati narlikar wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> I'm behind a firewall but manage to access the
> internet via a socks proxy. Since I can't use rsync either,
> I downloaded the ports tarball directly. I'm trying to
> install ports now, but the fetching naturally fails. I
> assume it uses curl? How can I ensure that curl uses socks?
> Am new to macports so any help will be more than welcome. 
> > 
> > MacPorts should pick up your proxy settings from
> System Preferences, or
> > failing that, you can configure them in macports.conf
> (which is well
> > commented).
> > 
> > - Josh
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