From: Jim Weirich Date: 2005-01-05T04:28:16+09:00 Subject: Re: [ANN] RubyGems 0.8.4 firestar said: > I used gems to install rails on win2K, but not able to do so behind a > proxy server. Even using the -p option does not help. > > Only now I realise that by adding the 'HTTP_PROXY' environment variable > in windows, the problem is solved! Just thought of sharing this tip > here, as my previous google attempt did not seem to find this... I just tried both the environment variable and the -p option under windows XP and both variations were fine. Can anyone confirm a problem on Windows 2000 with the -p proxy option? Thanks. -- -- Jim Weirich jim@weirichhouse.org http://onestepback.org ----------------------------------------------------------------- "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." -- Donald Knuth (in a memo to Peter van Emde Boas)