[Pythonmac-SIG] For your eyes only: new 2.3rc1+ installer

[Chris Lee]

Although I am willing to do this I would like to point out that this is 
not a good solution.  The process should be download, install and use 
not download, install, play with env variables/create/adjust plist 
files and use.
Cheers
Chris

On Thursday, July 24, 2003, at 05:32  PM, Andrew Straw wrote:

> On Thursday, Jul 24, 2003, at 00:02 Europe/Berlin, Jack Jansen wrote:
>
>>
>> On woensdag, jul 23, 2003, at 23:00 Europe/Amsterdam, Chris Lee wrote:
>>
>>> You probably already know this but the package manager doesn't 
>>> manage to get through firewalls.
>>
>> No, I didn't know this! Code was added before 2.3b1 to make it go 
>> through firewalls (basically using urllib2 in stead of urllib, which 
>> should be firewall-aware. This definitely needs to be fixed, or at 
>> the very least warned about.
>
> It does work.  Set the environment variable http_proxy:
>
> for bash do this:
>
> bash$ export 
> http_proxy='http://username:password@proxy.blahblahblah.com:1234'
>
> for all Mac OS X apps (e.g. double clicking from Applications) make 
> this your ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist file:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" 
> "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
> <plist version="1.0">
> <dict>
> 	<key>http_proxy</key>
> 	<string>http://username:password@proxy.blahblahblah.com:1234</string>
> </dict>
> </plist>
>
> Note that you'll need to login again for the 2nd approach to have an 
> effect.
>
> Cheers!
> Andrew
>
>
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