CentOS - Aug 2007 - Using HTTP proxy for yum

Is there a way to use an HTTP proxy (with a user/pass) with yum?  Or
at least a way to pass a user/pass through yum?  I have a situation
with a CentOS server behind a web filter appliance.

Thanks,
Scott

Found what I was trying to find in yum.conf, but it's not working...

proxy=http://hostname.domain.com/
proxy_username=domain\myusername
proxy_password=mypassword

# yum check-update
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up repositories
Could not retrieve mirrorlist
http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5&arch=i386&repo=extras error
was
[Errno 14] HTTP Error 407: Proxy Authentication Required
Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: extras

That's the legit user/pass syntax.  I use it when surfing with Firefox.

Thanks,
Scott



On 8/21/07, Scott Moseman <scmoseman at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Is there a way to use an HTTP proxy (with a user/pass) with yum?  Or
> at least a way to pass a user/pass through yum?  I have a situation
> with a CentOS server behind a web filter appliance.
>
> Thanks,
> Scott
>

> Is there a way to use an HTTP proxy (with a user/pass) with yum?  Or
> at least a way to pass a user/pass through yum?  I have a situation
> with a CentOS server behind a web filter appliance.
Add the following to /etc/wgetrc

http_proxy = http://username:password at proxy.example.com:8080/
ftp_proxy = http://username:password at proxy.example.com:8080/

... the web filter will need to be able to do http byte-range requests though. 
The proxy we have at work can't, yum should be able to deal without but
can't so
I have to rsync each of the repositories down locally and run yum from them.

Dan