From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 Description of problem: Yum doesn't seem to be able to cope with authenticating proxy. Manual pages give an example of proxy usage, but it is only a brief note, and apparently there is no current support for proxy authentication. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use yum behind authenticating proxy 2. Try all possible $http_proxy variations you can come up with 3. Fail to get updates Actual Results: [Errno 6] ERROR: Url Return no Content-Length - something is wrong Expected Results: Updates should be hopping along merrily into my computer. Additional info:
I experience this error also, but I'm trying to connect thru a non-authenticating proxy
Here you will find the resolution for your problem: Modify the configuration in /etc/profile like descripted here: http://www.cpqlinux.com/apt.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- Make some changes to /etc/profile just before the following line: export PATH USER LOGNAME MAIL HOSTNAME HISTSIZE INPUTRC When you're done it will look like this: http_proxy=http://user:password@proxy.mydomain.com:8080/ https_proxy=https://user:password@proxy.mydomain.com:8080/ export PATH USER LOGNAME MAIL HOSTNAME HISTSIZE INPUTRC http_proxy https_proxy ------------------------------------------------------------------ In profile you can set system-wide variables. When changes are saved, log-out an log-in again. Check if it works: $ echo $http_proxy http://user:password@proxy.mydomain.com:8080/ $ echo $https_proxy https://user:password@proxy.mydomain.com:8080/ $ The best is to create an special user for the proxy, as user:password is to read in the configuration file. Don't use the same user for other jobs in your network. Update yum first. You will get a new file /etc/yum.conf.rpmnew. Here are new servers with better performance. Change yum.conf to the new or modify the file, if you made additional changes. For Synaptic with authenticating proxy: Select: Preferences --> Preferences --> Network Select: Manual proxy configuration Field HTTP proxy: user:password.com I did so and it works fine.
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its not working for me i am using fedora11 kindly guide me what i have to do for this same