[darcs-users] No HTTP proxy support in Windows darcs

Trent W. Buck twb at cybersource.com.au
Tue Sep 22 01:53:58 UTC 2009


Simon Marlow <marlowsd at gmail.com> writes:

> So the darcs we get on Windows these days is not built against
> libcurl, and hence apparently has no proxy support.
>
> darcs failed:  Not a repository: http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc (Failed
> to download URL http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc/_darcs/inventory: No
> proxy support for HTTP package yet (try libcurl)!)


I rebuilt cabal-install recently (against HTTP-4000.0.6).  After doing
so, it successfully uses $http_proxy.  Previously it was TRYING to use
the proxy, but failing because it didn't include a Host field.

    $ cabal update -v3
    Downloading the latest package list from hackage.haskell.org
    Sending:
    GET http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/00-index.tar.gz HTTP/1.1
    User-Agent: cabal-install/0.6.2
    Host: hackage.haskell.org
    proxy uri host: localhost, port: :8080
    Creating new connection to localhost:8080
    [...]

Maybe HTTP only supports $http_proxy on GNU/Linux?
Maybe you need to use a newer HTTP?



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