From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luca Ferrari Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: elpa & proxy authentication Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 08:42:32 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1369982567 24483 80.91.229.3 (31 May 2013 06:42:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 06:42:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs To: Tim Visher Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 31 08:42:48 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UiJ31-0005Wm-AA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 May 2013 08:42:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41743 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UiJ30-0008RV-VT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 May 2013 02:42:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45673) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UiJ2p-0008RF-07 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 31 May 2013 02:42:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UiJ2n-0006d1-Su for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 31 May 2013 02:42:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-wg0-x22a.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c00::22a]:59370) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UiJ2n-0006aN-L8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 31 May 2013 02:42:33 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-wg0-f42.google.com with SMTP id n12so400545wgh.5 for ; Thu, 30 May 2013 23:42:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=GIJlaRLdMt/N0Gq8vDc0YV0//q60aXG7aHjx00x2dFU=; b=tfWae4XVhT4g604AUafloySILHOnt8gWFIzA/fygaXQylTD6tO+BmPfC09j/jYrViX PknGNqGR6nmiBf2CUKfll8cdS+foK19zjBOu+BivhgTy41TXdq8VgEk2xjARcxhItU90 VZQdLkqnQGtOrCgk4rtmjm3sD1a17cwdz6iMVbC2AWvN8yGeKTsdFDBhKKZrpuv5sM3k PeaIu7eSE4WgUGs+87cHtyow8UBzQkUt85jEVYgETk17daWHmXjEx6rm+t63agT4k7TA C4ZP4dTlMQEB1pcVoKowngGlH+sEg4AKgULp/qS9Dh1hChMeF2qO1OnogvGF4otAHR1S s+RA== X-Received: by 10.180.210.207 with SMTP id mw15mr1905802wic.10.1369982552508; Thu, 30 May 2013 23:42:32 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.194.19.36 with HTTP; Thu, 30 May 2013 23:42:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-Google-Sender-Auth: yuYhniW4EwvFUnQnT3gFEYuOXlI X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:400c:c00::22a X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:91196 Archived-At: On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Tim Visher wrote: > Hi Luca, > > You need to provide more info about your environment. > I'm running emacs 24.2 on Kubuntu 12.10 64 bit. > I know when I needed to do this the only solution I was able to come > up with was to use the http_proxy environment variable. Not sure why > what you did wouldn't work but all of the various tools I use, > including emacs, seem to honor the environment variable.i > I've tried it, but again the editor asks me for usernam/password each time I try to do a net-related operation and then refuses to download packages with the same error (Proxy authentication required). Of course, I've tried using http_proxy variable and, at the same time, I removed the .emacs configuration. Please note that the same http_proxy variable value works from the command line (e.g., wget something works). Any idea? Luca