Thanks for the pointer. Looks like lots of good folk are already working on it.
Bill On Nov 14, 10:23 am, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/14/11 10:18 AM, Bill Janssen wrote: > > > > > > > > > This is because I run Privoxy on my machine as an HTTP proxy, *and* > > specify proxy exceptions. If I turn off the proxying entirely (in > > System Preferences / Network) things seem to work. > > > So, the code in Sage will work if I say, > > > % sage -python -c "import urllib; print > > urllib.FancyURLopener({}).retrieve('http://www.sagemath.org// > > packages')" > > > That is, explicitly disable proxies for this retrieval. But if I'm > > behind a corporate firewall which *requires* proxies, that would fail > > in turn... > > > This is a Python bug, #8883, fixed in Python 2.6.6 and 2.7. I presume > > upgrading the version of Python used with Sage would be a major > > undertaking... > > It's mostly done. You could help: > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9958 -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
