Dear Gal-dev-ians, I just made a discovery and thought to share it with others so that they could save time and perhaps it gets documented in the maintained documentation. Namely, if http_proxy is set before running the run_functional_tests.sh, then all tests fails. This is due to the fact that twil tries to use the http_proxy for ALL connections, also those to the localhost. I just stumbled across it, while trying to fix the twill problems that I was getting without http_proxy... Wish you all a galactical day and hope with this mail to save time (to at least the newcomers). L.