
#855: cabal behind proxy ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: sms | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: cabal-install tool | Version: 1.10.1.0 Severity: normal | Keywords: proxy, authentication Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion: Platform: Windows | ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ I'm getting an error No action for prompting/generating user+password credentials provided (use: setAuthorityGen); returning Nothing when using 'cabal update' being behind proxy that is requiring authentication. My login and password contain \ and @ symbols, so I have them escaped in HTTP_PROXY environment variable: HTTP_PROXY=http://domain%5Cuser:passw%40rd@proxy.host:3128 -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/855 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects