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xDamox

Sep 28 2005, 04:00 PM

Hi,

I have been trying to get up2date working with the proxy that the university have provided
to no luck has it worked it just starts to search then says my machine is up2date even tho
I know its not.

I have tried setting the environment variables to the proxy this helps elinks to work
but when I try yum it just bitches.

CODE

Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/yum", line 15, in ?
yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 72, in main
result, resultmsgs = do()
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 419, in doCommands
return self.updatePkgs()
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 877, in updatePkgs
self.doRepoSetup()
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 72, in doRepoSetup
yum.YumBase.doRepoSetup(self, thisrepo=thisrepo)
File "__init__.py", line 208, in doRepoSetup
File "repos.py", line 516, in baseurlSetup
File "repos.py", line 768, in getMirrorList
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 444, in urlopen
return default_grabber.urlopen(url, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 575, in urlopen
return self._retry(opts, retryfunc, url)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 547, in _retry
return apply(func, (opts,) + args, {})
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 574, in retryfunc
return URLGrabberFileObject(url, filename=None, opts=opts)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 727, in __init__
self._do_open()
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 794, in _do_open
fo, hdr = self._make_request(req, opener)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 885, in _make_request
fo = opener.open(req)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 358, in open
response = self._open(req, data)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 376, in _open
'_open', req)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 337, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 573, in <lambda>
lambda r, proxy=url, type=type, meth=self.proxy_open: \
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 580, in proxy_open
if '@' in host:
TypeError: iterable argument required

is there any other methods to try

znx

Oct 6 2005, 12:19 AM

first one that grabs me is an ssh tunnel?

god i can hear my network admin crying.... he'll hate me for telling you!

due to the fact of the security issues when a SSL based transfer is made the proxy simple opens the connect and doesn't tamper with it (correctly). Needless to say this is a huge hole in the proxy, so all you do it tunnel through..

currently or net admin is out smarting the users though, basically by forcing the issue with which port the SSL transfers can be made to, this stops bt/mule etc type connections.

anyway.. im sure other ways exist, but

xDamox

Oct 15 2005, 03:57 PM

Hi znx,

Thanks for the reply

I aint been on for abit due to my network connection
at university. How could you tunnel with SSH andyum? could you give me
and example please.

znx

Oct 19 2005, 05:34 PM

OOOooops

SSL tunnel .. hehehe

my suggestion is to simply specify the SSL port.. and connect via that.. so all your http connections should be https

therefore any proxy requests should be made to https .. not http.. this way you should get through ...

sorry for the confusion

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