"Could not connect to server" displayed when the HTTP_PROXY environment variable is set

[Brian May]

After upgrading to the precise version, when viewing the "Get Add-ons" screen in the main menu, it says "Could not connect to server". However tcpdump doesn't show any attempt to make any outgoing connections that I can see.

It doesn't seem to like my http_proxy for some reason. If I unset http_proxy, then it works.

brian@andean:~$ echo $http_proxy
http://proxy.pri:3128/

The proxy works fine for other programs.

[Alessandro Menti (elgaton)]

I've tested this on a fresh Precise installation and it works for me - maybe the server was just temporarily down.

Could you please check if you can reach the address <http://trainsimframework.org/common/packages.dat> from your Web browser?

[Brian May (brian-microcomaustralia)]

Just tested in again, it doesn't seem to like my http_proxy for some reason. If I unset http_proxy, then it works.

brian@andean:~$ echo $http_proxy
http://proxy.pri:3128/

The proxy works fine for other programs.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Ariel Sebastián Becker (grafvonbecker)]

I can reach the address http://trainsimframework.org/common/packages.dat but it doesn't belongs anymore to OpenBVE. Instead it opens a webpage full of ads. Is there another server running, and how can I change the address in OpenBVE settings?

[Alessandro Menti (elgaton)]

I could not confirm the bug when it was filed; in these months, the main programmer left the project and let the domain expire.

Right now, there is a community-maintained version of OpenBVE at http://www.openbve.org/; one of the other developers continues to maintain the official version at http://odakyufan.zxq.net/openbve/index.html. Work is in progress to coordinate and continue development of the simulator.

It is not possible, unfortunately, to change the address in OpenBVE settings; you'll have to download and run the new version manually, or wait for a new package version to be released (I can speak with Paul Sladen, the package maintainer, about that).

[Jakub Vaněk (vanek-jakub4)]

For programmers, there is possible way. I downloaded the source code of the old version (1.4.1.2) from "http://openbve.org". I found in the file formMain.GetAddOns.cs variables "urls []" and "names []", that's contain's the old page. The new set of accessories ("urls []") is "http://railsimroutes.net/packages.dat" and the page ("names []") is "railsimroutes.net". It works. For non-programmers I put a modified game to "http://jakubvanekpc.wz.cz/openbve/OpenBVE-NoInstaller.zip"

[Jakub Vaněk (vanek-jakub4)]

Other change from OdakyUfan is on "http://<email address hidden>/msg1032014.html"

[Alessandro Menti (elgaton)]

Hi Jakub and Ariel,
thanks for your messages (especially, thanks for the link to the Debian bug report).

We're talking about two different bugs here - the original reporter said he could not connect to the add-ons repository when he was using a proxy server; at that time, the old trainsimframework.org website was still running. On the contrary, you are both reporting that the URL for the remote repository has changed - that's another problem.

For this reason, I have clarified a bit this bug report and opened a new one (bug #1034511) to keep track of the "URL change" necessity in the code - please leave comments relating to the URL change there.

[Alessandro Menti (elgaton)]

Setting the bug status back to New as only the original reporter could reproduce the problem so far.

[Christian Thal (thal1982)]

Moin,

also der Bug exestiert schon länger...
Ich habe einmal die ZIP-Datei angehängt, dort ist in einer Datei die Verbesserung erhalten, bloß wie lädt man eigentlich solche Verbesserung auf den Server?

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

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[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

This attachment doesn't seem to be a patch, rather a zip file of the trusty branch of openbve. As such I am unsubscribing the ubuntu-sponsors team.