[Distutils] Uploading an egg behind a proxy

[David Cournapeau]

James William Pye wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 08:52:09PM +0900, David Cournapeau wrote:
>   
>> Yes, sure :) This and ssh tunneling work, but that's not ideal.
>>     
>
> Have you tried the ``http_proxy`` environment variable? 
>
> (Didn't test, so I dunno. Just poked around the urllib source a
> bit and found a blurb about <scheme>_proxy environment variables)
>
>
>   
That's not the problem (and I have the variable defined to a correct 
value). The problem is that most of the time, the proxy is used to get a 
connection, but not to translate the url into an IP. In my case, this is 
needed. For example, ping google.com does not work on my machine: not 
because of ICMP blocking, but because google.com is not resolved to an 
IP. Only the proxy can do that

cheers,

David