FW: [R] Problems with url/download and http_proxy (PR#1689)
gregory_r_warnes@groton.pfizer.com
gregory_r_warnes@groton.pfizer.com
Wed, 19 Jun 2002 02:47:33 +0200 (MET DST)
For the record.
-----Original Message-----
From: ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk [mailto:ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 3:21 PM
To: Warnes, Gregory R
Cc: 'r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch'
Subject: RE: [R] Problems with url/download and http_proxy
The port is not supposed to be required, so rather than fix the docs can
anyone fix the problem?
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Warnes, Gregory R wrote:
>
> Just adding the trailing slash doesn't seem to help:
>
> > Sys.getenv('http_proxy')
> http_proxy
> "http://gproxy1.pfizer.com/"
>
> > url("http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES",'r')
> connect: Cannot assign requested address
> unable to connect to 'gproxy1.pfizer.com'.
> Error in url("http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES", "r")
> :
> cannot open URL
> `http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES'
>
> But adding the port explicitly does:
>
> > Sys.getenv("http_proxy")
> http_proxy
> "http://gproxy1.pfizer.com:80/"
> > url("http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES",'r')
> description
> "http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES"
> class
> "url"
> mode
> "r"
> text
> "text"
> opened
> "opened"
> can read
> "yes"
> can write
> "no"
>
>
>
> even if the trailing slash is not present:
>
> > Sys.getenv("http_proxy")
> http_proxy
> "http://gproxy1.pfizer.com:80"
>
> > url("http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES",'r')
> description
> "http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES"
> class
> "url"
> mode
> "r"
> text
> "text"
> opened
> "opened"
> can read
> "yes"
> can write
> "no"
>
>
> Perhaps the documentation for download.file should be changed to note the
> requirement of the port. The paragraph on proxies could be changed from
>
>
> Proxies can be specified via environment variables. Setting
> `"no_proxy"' stops any proxy being tried. Otherwise the setting of
> `"http_proxy"' or `"ftp_proxy"' (or failing that, the all
> upper-case version) is consulted and if non-empty used as a proxy
> site. For FTP transfers, the username and password on the proxy
> can be specified by `"ftp_proxy_user"' and `"ftp_proxy_password"'.
>
>
> to something like:
>
> Proxies can be specified via the environment variables `"http_proxy"'
> or `"HTTP_PROXY"' and `"ftp_proxy'" or `"FTP_PROXY"'. These
variables
> must be of the form `protocol://machine.domain.tld:port'. For FTP
> transfers, the username and password on the proxy can be specified by
> `"ftp_proxy_user"' and `"ftp_proxy_password"'. Setting `"no_proxy"'
> prevents the use of any proxy.
>
>
> -Greg
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk [mailto:ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 11:43 AM
> > To: Warnes, Gregory R
> > Cc: 'r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch'; 'bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch'
> > Subject: Re: [R] Problems with url/download and http_proxy
> >
> >
> > The code (which you do have available to you) says http_proxy
> >
> > * Should be like http://myproxy/ or http://myproxy:3128/
> >
> > which yours is not, so please try that format. The code suggests
> > that the traling / can be omitted, but the words do not.
> >
> > --
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