F11 yum proxy changes from http_proxy to https_proxy

[timliim]

At work I used to use "export http_proxy=http://xxx:8080" in F10 to
instruct yum to use said http proxy. This no longer works with F11;
yum would hang like this in F11, with http_proxy set:

[root@taiwan timliim]# yum update
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit

The reason being that in F10 yum uses http to get mirror list, but in
F11 it uses https. In F11 one can use

export https_proxy=http://xxx:8080

or edit /etc/yum.conf to add

proxy=http://xxx:8080

This knowledge is in other postings too, but their subject lines are
less than obvious to me, so I am reposting a summarized version here.

Cheers,
Tim Taiwanese Liim

[timliim]

Then I have my own follow-up question:
- yum sends this to proxy server:

GET https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/me...a-11&arch=i386 HTTP/1.1

and the proxy says

Your request could not be processed.

- in contrast, firefox sends this to proxy:

CONNECT mirrors.fedoraproject.org:443 HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 [...]
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Host: mirrors.fedoraproject.org

to which proxy replies

HTTP/1.1 200 Connection established

It seems that yum is using wrong protocol talking to https proxy.
Is this correct observation?

Thanks,
Tim Taiwanese Liim

[timliim]

Related bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484491

Workaround:
change all https in repo file to http:

sed -i -e 's/https:/http:/' /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo

[wvn]

Originally Posted by timliim

Related bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484491

Workaround:
change all https in repo file to http:

sed -i -e 's/https:/http:/' /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo

Thanks a lot for this tip. Was busting my head trying to figure it out.

[timliim]

Thanks for positive feedback! Glad it works for you.
Tim Taiwanese Liim