Cabal fails with proxy with authentication

Question

This is a well-known bug that cabal can not handle proxies in format http://user:password@host:port format. On Haskell mailing list, someone suggested

Answer 1

I have got it working with polipo. My university uses http-proxy with authentication. In /etc/polipo/config you need to add these lines

parentProxy = "proxy.server.com:80"
parentAuthCredentials = "myusername:mypassword"

And export http_proxy=http://localhost:8123". And it worked like a charm.