el-get-emacswiki-refresh does not always work

[mattfidler]

When I type el-get-emacswiki-refresh nothing is updated. I recieve the following:

Using a proxy for http...
Contacting host: Proxy:####

Since this is running in bach mode I cannot enter my user name nor password.

[dimitri]

Oh damn, non transparent http proxy, that still exists. That is setup in the environment, right? the http_proxy env variable? I wonder why that's not inherited to Emacs subprocesses.

[mattfidler]

That is one way to send the information to multiple programs. It is inherited to emacs processes. However, url.el does not support the:

username:password@hostname.com:8333

syntax, just the

username:password@hostname.com.

[mattfidler]

At home with no proxy, I get

Contacting host: www.emacswiki.org:80

And after 20 minutes nothing has happened.

[jleechpe]

Are you trying on Windows or Linux?

If on Windows try the solution DarwinAwardWinner suggested in #569, it solved that exact issue for me (sits at contacting host)

[mattfidler]

Running within Emacs works just fine.

I think that running with a proxy it would work fine too since Emacs would prompt for a user-name and password.