From: Stefan Mahlitz <stefan@...>
Date: 2007-03-07T02:44:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Error when specifying proxy

Behrang Saeedzadeh wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When I set the HTTP_PROXY env var to
> user:pass@http://proxy.monash.edu.au:8080 and run gem to install
> Rials, I get the following error:
> 
>  C:\Documents and Settings\Behrang>gem install rails --remote
>  ERROR:  While executing gem ... (URI::InvalidURIError)
>    can not set user with registry or opaque
> 
> Any ideas what is probably causing the error and how can I fix it?
> (The environment is Win XP)

It should be

http://user:pass@proxy.monash.edu.au:8080

if I remember correctly

You can also set this up in your .gemrc-file