Found the cure – just required adding urllib2.ProxyHandler in the data_source tools.

Why doesn’t Galaxy pick up the system http_proxy variables?

--Russell Smithies

From: galaxy-dev-bounces@lists.bx.psu.edu [mailto:galaxy-dev-bounces@lists.bx.psu.edu] On Behalf Of Smithies, Russell
Sent: Wednesday, 30 November 2011 9:09 a.m.
To: galaxy-dev@lists.bx.psu.edu
Subject: [galaxy-dev] proxy settings?

I’m new to Galaxy so I’m not sure if this a Galaxy or linux/apache question .

When I try to “Get Data” from UCSC or any other external site, I get a 407 error from our proxy as I need to authenticate.

Is the request going out as the ‘galaxy’ user or ‘apache’ or the user that’s logged in?

I already have http_proxy and ftp_proxy configured in /etc/profile (we’re running Centos 6) but I assume there a correct place to configure this for Galaxy?

The error message I’m seeing is:

An error occurred running this job: The remote data source application may be off line, please try again later. Error: ('http error', 407, 'Proxy Access Denied', <httplib.HTTPMessage instance at 0x35d2998>)

Any ideas?

Thanx,

Russell Smithies

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