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://

[ghost]

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.

[dom96]

Nim stdlib issues fixed in nim-lang/Nim@bf4c137.

[ghost]

Doesn't work for me:

nimble refresh --verbose
Downloading Official package list
     Trying https://github.com/nim-lang/packages/raw/master/packages.json
 Connecting to proxy at (scheme: http, username: , password: , hostname: X, port: 8080, path: , query: , anchor: , opaque: false)
   Warning: Could not download: Connection was closed before full request has been made
     Trying http://irclogs.nim-lang.org/packages.json
 Connecting to proxy at (scheme: http, username: , password: , hostname: X, port: 8080, path: , query: , anchor: , opaque: false)
   Warning: Could not download: invalid http version, 0x7f7bdb233968"0"
     Trying http://nim-lang.org/nimble/packages.json
 Connecting to proxy at (scheme: http, username: , password: , hostname: X, port: 8080, path: , query: , anchor: , opaque: false)
   Warning: Could not download: invalid http version, 0x7f7bd9b06dc8"0"
     Error: Refresh failed
        ... Could not download: invalid http version, 0x7f7bd9b06dc8"0"

I replaced the proxy address with X.

nim --version
Nim Compiler Version 0.17.2 (2018-01-24) [Linux: amd64]
Copyright (c) 2006-2018 by Andreas Rumpf

active boot switches: -d:release -d:nativeStackTrace

nimble --version
nimble v0.8.8 compiled at 2017-09-11 16:18:57
git hash: /bin/sh: git: command not found

[thbkrshw]

Same for me:

imble --verbose install jester
    Reading official package list
    Prompt: No local packages.json found, download it from internet? [y/N]
    Answer: y
Downloading Official package list
     Trying https://github.com/nim-lang/packages/raw/master/packages.json
 Connecting to proxy at (scheme: http, username: , password: , hostname: X, port: 8080, path: , query: , anchor: , opaque: false)
   Warning: Could not download: The proxy server rejected a CONNECT request, so a secure connection could not be established.
     Trying http://irclogs.nim-lang.org/packages.json
 Connecting to proxy at (scheme: http, username: , password: , hostname: X, port: 8080, path: , query: , anchor: , opaque: false)
   Warning: Could not download: invalid http version, 0x7f8f55081788"0"
     Trying http://nim-lang.org/nimble/packages.json
 Connecting to proxy at (scheme: http, username: , password: , hostname: X, port: 8080, path: , query: , anchor: , opaque: false)
   Warning: Could not download: invalid http version, 0x7f8f550814e0"0"
     Error: Refresh failed
        ... Could not download: invalid http version, 0x7f8f550814e0"0"

nim --version
Nim Compiler Version 0.17.2 (2018-01-24) [Linux: amd64]
Copyright (c) 2006-2018 by Andreas Rumpf

active boot switches: -d:release -d:nativeStackTrace

nimble --version
nimble v0.8.8 compiled at 2017-09-11 16:18:57

[dom96]

This is a Nim stdlib bug, maybe you could take a look? I don't personally use proxies.

[thbkrshw]

Thanks for the input.
After finding the root cause, I also found another closed issue: #6685

Still in the devel branch

[dom96]

oh, so it's fixed in devel?

[thbkrshw]

Yes, I was able to compile the last devel version of nim and with the right NIM_LIB_PREFIX, nimble successfully downloaded the package list behind a proxy :)

[dom96]

Awesome, sucks that you had to set NIM_LIB_PREFIX but I might just give in and say that sometimes it's necessary to set it.

[thbkrshw]

It was just to point to the last standard library (which contains the bug fix for the HTTPS connection through proxy) Will have to wait for the next nim release :)

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[ghost]

It still doesn't work for me with nim 0.18.0 and nimble 0.8.10.