up2date Proxy Configuration

[M A Young]

On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Jorge [iso-8859-1] Fábregas wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm having a weird problem running up2date with a proxy. If I configure the
> proxy using:  up2date --configure  and I enter the proxy in the format:
> host:ip-number and I run up2date it doesn't work.  It simply hangs (the
> little window showing the retrieving of headers stays there). However, If I
> (on the shell) export the variable http_proxy and I assign the proper value
> for it and then I run up2date there...it works fine. So, my question is: why
> is just considering the value for http_proxy (envirionment variable) and not
> the one I configured for it using "up2date --configure" ?

It is a long standing bug (102272).

	Michael Young