In my office environment, I used the HTTP_PROXY environment variable to use the corporate proxy:
http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/html_node/Proxies.html On 1/11/2011 20:04, chris burke wrote: > The install uses the same download code as pacman, and this is a call > to wget. It might be worth experimenting with options to wget to see > if you can work around the firewall. > > On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:34 PM, Stefano Lanzavecchia<[email protected]> wrote: >>> I will add my observations on the current GTK beta install for windows >>> machines. On my home machines I had no problem downloading a clean >>> j701 beta and running install 'gtkide' in jconsole. On office >>> machines - behind the usual corporate firewall the getgtkbin verb >>> hangs. I looked at the definition of the verb and was oddly able to >>> directly download the gtkwin32.zip in the browser. I expect the >>> firewall recognized the browser request and allowed it but did not >> recognized the j request. >> >> You could try and check if the browser has a proxy setup. In IE8 you would >> check Internet Options>Connections>LAN settings. The presence of the proxy >> could explain why a piece of software that makes a direct socket connections >> fails, while the Internet Browser succeeds. >> -- >> Stefano >> >>> "Hitting is 50% above the shoulders." --- >> Ted Williams< >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
