getting 407 error in ppm 4

s_m_b has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

This is annoying. I start up PPM 4 and get a 407 proxy auth error when it tries to read the repository db. I've added the http_proxy setting to the environment variables (win 2k server) without any success. I know for a fact these work, as I can browse quite happily from the console. I have also tried downloading the tar.gz package I'm after and doing ppm install from cmd, but it won't find the package. Any help appreciated

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Re: getting 407 error in ppm 4 by moritz (Cardinal) on Mar 10, 2008 at 13:25 UTC
Does your proxy need authentication? And did you provide proxy username and password? Do other programs work that rely on the http_proxy environment variable? (you could test that with wget for windows)	[reply]
Re^2: getting 407 error in ppm 4 by s_m_b (Acolyte) on Mar 10, 2008 at 15:44 UTC
Yes and yes. Just tried wget, and that doesn't work either. I'll reboot the server overnight JIC it needs that.	[reply]
Re: getting 407 error in ppm 4 by igelkott (Priest) on Mar 10, 2008 at 13:30 UTC
Need a username and/or password for your proxy. Assuming windows, you might not see this for other applications because they could use your domain login credentials. Format is `http_proxy=http://username:password@hostname:port`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: getting 407 error in ppm 4 by s_m_b (Acolyte) on Mar 10, 2008 at 15:57 UTC
see above comments. Just tried the set option mentioned in wget help. very spooky, it worked. I'll switch the setting on the server. Thanks for the suggestions.	[reply]