Re: elpa & proxy authentication

[Michael Albinus]

Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@infinito.it> writes:

> I've tried it, but again the editor asks me for usernam/password each
> time I try to do a net-related operation and then refuses to download
> packages with the same error (Proxy authentication required).
> Of course, I've tried using http_proxy variable and, at the same time,
> I removed the .emacs configuration. Please note that the same
> http_proxy variable value works from the command line (e.g., wget
> something works).
>
> Any idea?

url-auth.el uses auth-sources.el. So you could try to configure your
proxy server credentials this way. See

  (info "(auth)Help for users")

for an example how to specify passwords for http.

> Luca

Best regards, Michael.