Ubuntu – Curl command fails with a timeout

12.04curlPROXY

I'm trying to run the following command on my ubuntu box:

 curl https://install.meteor.com/ | sh

It times out.

I tried to ping the address but it just sits there.
I also tried to ping google.com but again, it just sits there.
I don't think it's a DNS issue… here's the output from the ping: 

 me@mydev:/var/www/wtracks$ ping google.com
 PING google.com (74.125.226.134) 56(84) bytes of data.
 ^C
 --- google.com ping statistics ---
 1 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 0ms

 me@mydev:/var/www/wtracks$ ping 74.125.226.134
 PING 74.125.226.134 (74.125.226.134) 56(84) bytes of data.

What I've tried so far:
I've opened up my proxy settings in chrome (which is what I'm using right now to surf…) and made sure that I ran the following command in the command line where I'm trying to run curl:

 export http_proxy="http://myproxyservername.net:8080"

Then i retried the ping and curl but neither work.
Any other suggestions?

Thanks.

Best Answer

you are tying to use a http_proxy environment variable with HTTPS url https://install.meteor.com/ .

To set your HTTPS proxy use HTTPS_PROXY environment variable (all upper case)

from manual for curl

Curl reads and understands the following environment variables:

    http_proxy, HTTPS_PROXY, FTP_PROXY
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