Spot on, Kim-Ee. Thanks. unsetting http_proxy fixed it.
I’m fwding to cabal-devel: it would be great that if “http_proxy” was set to “”, then it behaved just as if it was un-set. The current behaviour is very confusing (to me anyway).
Simon
From: Kim-Ee Yeoh [mailto:ky3@atamo.com]
Sent: 08 May 2014 14:48
To: Simon Peyton Jones
Cc: Herbert Valerio Riedel; Simon Marlow; ghc-devs@haskell.org
Subject: Re: Cabal can't open a TCP connection
On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 8:22 PM, Simon Peyton Jones mailto:simonpj@microsoft.com> wrote:
On a machine that doesn't need to use a proxy server, what should $http_proxy be set to?
It's a Maybe (Maybe String) problem. Blame Cabal for not ignoring an empty http_proxy. The *nix programs I've tried treat empty as unset.
The solution is: unset HTTP_PROXY.
-- Kim-Ee
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Ämne: Cabal can't open a TCP connection
Dear ghc-devs
Cabal can’t open a TCP connection from my Linux box. It used to work fine. Here’s what it says:
cabal -v3 update
Downloading the latest package list from hackage.haskell.org
Sending:
GET http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/00-index.tar.gz HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: cabal-install/1.16.0.2
Host: hackage.haskell.org
proxy uri host: , port:
Creating new connection to
cabal: openTCPConnection: host lookup failure for ""
simonpj@cam-05-unx:~/code/HEAD$ cabal --version
cabal-install version 1.16.0.2
using version 1.16.0.3 of the Cabal library
simonpj@cam-05-unx:~/code/HEAD$
Can anyone help me work out what to do? git works just fine, so the internet is connected all right.
Thanks
Simon
