From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2005-04-08T23:09:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem installing gems


Robert Isaacs said:
[...]
> I get the following message:
>
>     Upgrading installed gems...
>     Updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
>
> and it freezes there forever.
>
> One other interesting fact that might be useful is that wget also fails
> on this desktop as well.  It times out on *sending* the http request.

Hmmm ... what is the proxy situation on that particular box?  Browsers
tend to pick up the proxy configuration automatically, but many tools
(perhaps including wget) need a http_proxy environment variable set.

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