I have noticed this problem with 8.1 and aboove. My rpmdrake doesn't work
well if I have a proxy installed and specified.  I get the following error
always.

should install 'apache'
extracting apache-1.3.22-1.1mdk.i586
extracting apache-common-1.3.22-1.1mdk.i586
extracting apache-conf-1.3.22-1.1mdk.i586
extracting apache-1.3.22-1.1mdk.i586
extracting apache-modules-1.3.22-1.1mdk.i586
installing
ftp://ftp.stealth.net/pub/mirrors/ftp.mandrake.com/Mandrake/updates/8.1/RPMS//apache-common-1.3.22-1.1mdk.i586.rpm
ftp://ftp.stealth.net/pub/mirrors/ftp.mandrake.com/Mandrake/updates/8.1/RPMS//apache-conf-1.3.22-1.1mdk.i586.rpm
ftp://ftp.stealth.net/pub/mirrors/ftp.mandrake.com/Mandrake/updates/8.1/RPMS//apache-modules-1.3.22-1.1mdk.i586.rpm
ftp://ftp.stealth.net/pub/mirrors/ftp.mandrake.com/Mandrake/updates/8.1/RPMS//apache-1.3.22-1.1mdk.i586.rpm
'ftp://ftp.stealth.net/pub/mirrors/ftp.mandrake.com/Mandrake/updates/8.1/RPMS//apache-common-1.3.22-1.1mdk.i586.rpm'
Couldn't resolve proxy

Actually, I have a http proxy in the setup.  But there is no ftp proxy.
HTTP proxy name is given correctly as ev. variable
(http_proxy="http://server.mydomain.com:8080/"; and also in File->proxies
menu. 

Can somebody help me in correcting this.  THis stops me from updating any
packages from web using MandrakeUpdate.
Currently I'm using

rpmdrake-1.3-103mdk

Thanks in advance,
--jaimon

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