How to make Anaconda work behind HTTP proxy (not https)?

Question

I\'m having trouble working with Anaconda behind a proxy at work.

When I have have the following environment variables:

http_proxy: http://domain\\us         


        

Answer 1

The above solution of modifying .condarc doesn't work for me. However I succeed by updating the environment variables in Advanced System Settings in the format https://user:pass@corp.com:8080.

If your password contains special characters, you need escape them as described in Percent-encoding reserved characters , on Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding#Percent-encoding_reserved_characters