[squid-users] Re: Problem for downloading packets using yum through the Squid's authentication.

Elvin Hernàndez wrote:

> Hi everyone.
>
> As you know, every machine with Fedora Core 6 can use the command 'yum'
> either to update the system or install packets on line. We tried to
> install the packets related with Xen via yum and we had not success to do
> it. The company's machines go out to Internet through Squid which
> authenticate the users before allow access to internet. In a beginning we
> thought that the problem was that yum was not authenticating with proxy
> and therefore it can't download the packets from Internet, so we edited
> the file /etc/yum.conf and added the next lines:
>
> proxy=10.200.0.48:8081
> proxy_username=ehernandez
> proxy_password=**********
>
> Once we did the previous, we tried to download the packets again and we
> obtained the next error:
>
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> Options Error: Error parsing '10.200.0.48:8081': URL must be http, ftp or
> https not "10.200.0.48"

Have you tried the obvious:

proxy=http://10.200.0.48:8081
Received on Mon Jul 09 2007 - 17:16:33 MDT