python - 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://domainusername:password@corp.com:8080
https_proxy: https://domainusername:password@corp.com:8080

or just

http_proxy: http://serverusername:password@corp.com:8080

set up then git works. But Anaconda does not work. I'm trying to run

conda update conda

and I get:

Could not connect to https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs....
Could not connect to https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs....

Does Anaconda not work with http? and requires an https proxy? Because I'm thinking my company may not have an https proxy server setup (I've only seen them use http). or sometimes I get the error:

File "cAnaconda2", line 340, in wait
    waiter.acquire()
KeyboardInterrupt
Could not connect to https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs....
Could not connect to https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs....

I'm using Windows 7.

Answer 1

you need to create a .condarc file in you Windows user area:

C:Users<username>

The file should contain:

channels:
- defaults

# Show channel URLs when displaying what is going to be downloaded and
# in 'conda list'. The default is False.
show_channel_urls: True
allow_other_channels: True

proxy_servers:
    http: http://proxy.yourorg.org:port
    https: http://proxy.yourorg.org:port


ssl_verify: False