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Martin Pool (mbp) wrote : Re: Proxy authentication doesn't work even though the credentials are in the HTTP_PROXY environment variable

There's some description of NTLM proxy auth here: http://squid.sourceforge.net/ntlm/client_proxy_protocol.html

I may be missing your point but if the proxy requires NTLM it's not going to be enough for bzr to just have the username/password in the HTTP_PROXY setting. bzr (or the library it uses) needs to know how to do the fairly complicated dance to open the connection.

However, if urllib2 can do this in other cases, but bzr's use of urllib2 doesn't work we may be able to fix it.

Can you give an example of some urllib2 code that does work in this case?

As a workaround you may be able to use ssh to Launchpad.