Proxy problem

[Jeff Singleton]

the http may or may not be a requirement of the school's chosen proxy
solution.  Try both...one way will work.  Also .. type 'env' outside of
macport and make sure you don't have any *_proxy variables set, as they will
conflict with the macports.conf setting.

On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 1:17 PM, notbot <anotbot at me.com> wrote:

> Yes, I have removed the #.
>
> and I put the proxy URL in the form :
>
> # HTTP proxy:
> proxy_http            proxy.uni.ac.uk:8080
>
> with no http://  is that correct?
>
> cheers
>
> Anot
>
>
> On 2 Oct 2010, at 16:45, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>  On Oct 2, 2010, at 06:25, notbot wrote:
>>
>>  I have tried editing the macports.conf  but it doesn't seem to make any
>>> difference... still get failed to fetch with 407 error
>>>
>>> The proxy is also set in system preferences and I have tried the
>>> macports.conf with
>>>
>>>  #proxy_override_env    yes
>>>>
>>>
>>> both enabled and off, again no difference.
>>>
>>
>> You have removed the "#" from the beginning of the line? If not, it will
>> have no effect.
>>
>>
>
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