2010/5/19 Ivan Lazar Miljenovic <ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com>:
> Serguey Zefirov <sergu...@gmail.com> writes:
>> Why there is no switch to turn off any use of proxy in cabal-install?
>> Or to supply username/password pair in command line.
>> I have a strange situation: wget works like charm ignoring proxy (I
>> downloaded Cabal and cabal-install to investigate the problem using
>> wget), Firefox works like charm igoring proxy, and only cabal cannot
>> access anything, because it follows proper proxy protocol and our
>> proxy requires username and password.
> "Ignoring proxy"?

Yes, they go right to internet. Firefox set to "No proxy" connection type.

>> And I don't know of proper way to supply them through http_proxy
>> environment variable.
> export http_proxy="http://${username}:${passwo...@${proxy_url}";

I tried it and it didn't work. I don't know reason, though, maybe it
was because my current password not entirely alphanumeric.
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