[arch-general] pacman from behind a proxy (not under my control)

[Oon-Ee Ng]

On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Eliseo Ocampos <roskoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 11:58 PM, Oon-Ee Ng <ngoonee.talk at gmail.com> wrote:
>> So I just tried a new install, it works and even got updated the first
>> time. Left it over the weekend, now that I'm back on it (still quite
>> bare, nothing much set up yet) I can't seem to get pacman connected to
>> the mirrors.
>>
>> This machine is a university machine and needs to connect via
>> proxy.name_of_uni.edu.my:8080, so I've set http_proxy and ftp_proxy to
>> the right values. Also substituted in the actual IP addresses with the
>> same results.
>>
>> What happens is that all the mirrors get the following (with wget
>> uncommented in pacman.conf, similar results even when not using wget)
>> Connecting to mirrors.kernel.org|149.20.4.71|:80... failed: Connection
>> timed out.
>>
>> Ironically, when I try to wget the db file itself through wget
>> http://mirrrors.kernel.org/archlinux/testing/os/i686/testing.db it
>> downloads fine.... Any idea what the problem could be?
>
> Hi there, try to add a trailing slash to your proxy URL:
> proxy.name_of_uni.edu.my:8080/
>
> HTH,
> Eliseo.

Tried that, no difference. If its something as simple as that, my
normal download using wget wouldn't work, would it?