17 Dec
2008
17 Dec
'08
10:17 a.m.
Valery V. Vorotyntsev
Dear lazy programmers,
I was surprised to discover that `cabal-install' -- a popular utility for installing Hackage packages -- cannot work with HTTP proxies. Despite all the necessary code linked in.
`cabal update' command returns HTTP 407 (Proxy Authentication Required) error. The problem is explained below and patches follow.
I just tripped over the same problem yesterday so your patch saved me a lot of debugging. Dominic.