Using pip behind a proxy

Question

I am trying to use pip behind a proxy at work.

One of the answers from this post suggested using CNTLM. I installed and configured it per this other post, but running cntlm.exe -c cntlm.ini -I -M http://google.com gave the error Connection to proxy failed, bailing out.

I also tried pip install -–proxy=user:pass@localhost:3128 (the default CNTLM port) but that raised Cannot fetch index base URL http://pypi.python.org/simple/. Clearly something's up with the proxy.

Does anyone know how to check more definitively whether CNTLM is set up right, or if there's another way around this altogether? I know you can also set the http_proxy environment variable as described here but I'm not sure what credentials to put in. The ones from cntlm.ini?

Answer 1

Set the following environment variable: export PIP_PROXY=http://web-proxy.mydomain.com

Answer 2

How about just doing it locally? Most likely you are able to download from https source through your browser

1. Download your module file (mysql-connector-python-2.0.3.zip /gz... etc).

2. Extract it and go the extracted dir where setup.py is located and call:

   C:\mysql-connector-python-2.0.3>python.exe setup.py install