How to get pkgng work through a proxy?

[Tom Evans]

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Lars Engels <lars.engels at 0x20.net> wrote:
> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 12:36:44PM +0200, Rainer Duffner wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have this host (a cloned VM, FreeBSD 9.1 AMD64) behind an Astaro
>> Web-Proxy:
>>
>>
>> (blahost </root>) 70 # pkg
>> update
>> [12:00] Updating repository catalogue
>> repo.txz                                                        3%
>> 10KB   0.5KB/s   0.0KB/s - stalled -pkg:
>> http://pkgng.our.repo/91amd64-91patch/repo.txz: Operation timed out
>>
>>
>> It's a proxy with authentication.
>>
>> I'm not sure if it's a fetch(3) problem in general.
>> Because a single fetch from the same server of a small and large file
>> does work, though a bit slow.
>>
>> pkg is 1.0.2
>
> It's working here with these env vars set:
>
> http_proxy=http://<USER>:<PASSWD>@<SERVER>:8080
> ftp_proxy=http://<USER>:<PASSWD>@<SERVER>:8080
> HTTP_PROXY=http://<USER>:<PASSWD>@<SERVER>:8080
> FTP_PROXY=http://<USER>:<PASSWD>@<SERVER>:8080
> HTTP_PROXY_AUTH=basic:*:<USER>:<PASSWD>
>
>
> But I can't tell which one get's pulled in.

My work require proxy authentication also, with the annoying
requirement that the username is my email address, which ultimately
means that I cannot insert username/pass into http_proxy or variants.
libfetch is smart enough to pull these out of HTTP_PROXY_AUTH, but
very few other applications are.

Eventually, I gave up trying to convince all these disparate
applications to discover my proxy auth, and instead I set up a local
copy of squid on my laptop, which I point at my upstream proxy and
provide with authentication details. I can then use this
unauthenticated proxy on localhost to access my corporate proxy fully
authenticated. It's a bit of hassle in the short term, but all proxy
setup becomes much simpler with it in place.

IIRC, the only lines I added to squid.conf's defaults were these:

http_port 127.0.0.1:3128
cache_peer <proxy ip> parent 3128 0 proxy-only default login=<my
email>:<my pass>

Cheers

Tom