From: Robert Isaacs Date: 2005-04-08T23:23:18+09:00 Subject: Re: Problem installing gems There aren't any proxies on this network. I have a standard network setup with just a firewall that allows outbound access for everything. I have also tried switching on and off the windows firewall which hasn't made any difference. -----Original Message----- From: Jim Weirich [mailto:jim@weirichhouse.org] Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 10:10 AM To: ruby-talk ML 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. -- -- 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)