Tag: HTTPS_PROXY

How to get pip to work behind a proxy server

On Ubuntu, you can set proxy by using

export http_proxy=http://username:password@proxy:port
export https_proxy=http://username:password@proxy:port

or if you are having SOCKS error use

export all_proxy=http://username:password@proxy:port

Then run pip

sudo -E pip3 install {packageName}

The pip’s proxy parameter is, according to pip --help, in the form scheme://[user:passwd@]proxy.server:port

You should use the following:

pip install --proxy http://user:password@proxyserver:port TwitterApi

Also, the HTTP_PROXY env var should be respected.

CPAN first launch (Proxy Configuration)

Execute the following command to set proxy for CPAN and installing perl modules via CPAN:

$ cpan  # or perl -MCPAN -e shell
cpan[1]> o conf http_proxy ""
cpan[2]> o conf ftp_proxy ""
cpan[3]> o conf proxy_user ""
cpan[4]> o conf proxy_pass ""
cpan[5]> o conf commit
cpan[6]> q

$ # I have a shell function that does basically this
$ export http_proxy="http://user:pass@proxyserver:8080"
$ for v in HTTP_PROXY https_proxy HTTPS_PROXY ftp_proxy FTP_PROXY; do
> export $v="$http_proxy"
> done

$ cpan i Devel::Repl   # or whatever