#748: cabal update fails ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: guest | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: cabal-install tool | Version: 1.8.0.6 Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion: 6.12.3 Platform: Windows | ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Comment(by guest): I think it's not about system wide configuration. My company has more sophisticated proxy policy - all my browsers (IE, Chrome, Firefox) are configured to use autoconfiguration script, which is accessible in my intranet - this script does not define one proxy server and selects proxy based on some conditions. It appears that cabal is not using this script - as I see it's written in JS, so I suppose this bug will not be resolved as you probably aren't willing to add JS compiler to cabal - at least I wouldn't :) In the other hand this bug makes it more difficult for many companies to use haskell - at least for HP. Check out this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_auto-config -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/748#comment:4 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects