How to use PEAR behind proxy?

Question

Initially I used the following with no success;

export http_proxy=http://username@password:host:port

Worth noting I don\'t get a connection

Answer 1

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 :-)