Description of problem:
There seems to be no way to tell pirut to go through a proxy. I tried setting
the env var http_proxy and also setting the Network Proxy from the menu. But
still pirut does not seem to pich the proxy

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How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open pirut on a m/c which connects to internet through a proxy
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Actual results:
Pirut hangs for sometime and displays an error message that it couldn't connect

Expected results:
Pirut should display the package information 

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