Proxy Support

[jryan128]

Doesn't seem to be support for proxies. I tried hard-coding the proxy, but couldn't seem to get it to work.

[Varriount]

Uh, what? Aren't proxies normally handled at the system level?

[jryan128]

nimble/src/nimble.nim

Line 231 in 4130771

downloadFile(url, options.getNimbleDir() / "packages.json")

After digging through downloadFile source, it looks like for downloadFile to use a proxy you need to pass proxy:
http://nim-lang.org/httpclient.html#downloadFile,string,string,SSLContext,Proxy

[dom96]

As a workaround you can just download the packages.json file manually from http://github.com/nim-lang/packages

[daniel-kullmann]

That file can then be copied into ~/.nimble/, where the nimble executable will find it.

[daniel-kullmann]

I also had the problem that git was trying to clone git:// URLs, which does not seem to work when behind a proxy. Using the following git command fixed this:

git config --global url."https://".insteadOf git://

Hello, I am running Ubuntu GNOME 14.10 version and I am having issues with Aporia installation due to this, a fix would be much appreciated.

[marcotama]

Hello! I have the same problems. I manually downloaded the packages.json file because I cannot get nimble to download it autonomously through my university proxy. I also edited the file replacing all occurrences of git:// with https://. I am using Linux Mint 17.

[wam12345]

Same problem. I just copied needed packages folders to .nimble/pkgs/

[dom96]

It's implemented but is blocked by Nim stdlib issues.