How to use PEAR behind proxy?

Instead of using the system's http_proxy, set the proxy directly in pear's config;

pear config-set http_proxy http://username:password@yourproxy:80

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You also may have an issue with your sudo user having different configuration from your user for pear.

If you make this :

pear config-set http_proxy http://username:password@yourproxy:80

Then

sudo pear channel-discover pear.symfony-project.com

You have change user and the proxy is still not set.

So use the appropriate command:

sudo pear config-set http_proxy http://username:password@yourproxy:80

(Issue spotted on Ubuntu 11.04 fresh install)

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Note that pear config-set http_proxy works whereby pecl config-set http_proxy does not, even though pecl config-get http_proxy does.

That one cost me me quite a bit of hair pulling :-)

CodeHunter