Proxy problems

[David Shaw]

On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 01:45:05AM +1030, Alphax wrote:
> I've now upgraded to the official build of 1.4.6 and still can't get GPG
> to talk to my proxy; I've confirmed that it's using Basic authentication:
> 
> > $ telnet <proxy> 8080
> > Trying <ip>...
> > Connected to <proxy>.
> > Escape character is '^]'.
> > GET http://www.gnupg.org HTTP/1.1
> > 
> > HTTP/1.0 407 Proxy Authentication Required
> > Server: squid/2.5.STABLE12
> > Mime-Version: 1.0
> > Date: <date>
> > Content-Type: text/html
> > Content-Length: 1345
> > Expires: <date>
> > X-Squid-Error: ERR_CACHE_ACCESS_DENIED 0
> > Proxy-Authenticate: Basic realm="<realm>"
> > X-Cache: MISS from <cache>
> > X-Cache-Lookup: NONE from <cache>
> > Proxy-Connection: close
> 
> but trying --keyserver-options
> http-proxy="http://user:pass@<proxy>:8080" doesn't work; all I get is
> 
> > gpgkeys: HTTP search error 7: couldn't connect: eof
> 
> Does anyone know how to fix this?

Need some more information.  Are you using curl or the internal HTTP
support?  I'm guessing internal, but I want to be sure.  Also, can you
post the output when you set "--keyserver-options debug" and do your
search again?

David