Cannot receive list of available packages via proxy

[cornacchia]

Hi,

I installed the following snapshot:

2.0-RC3 (i386)
built on Fri Jul 8 19:24:31 EDT 2011

I have set pfSense as a transparent firewall.

Firmware updagrade, works perfectly via proxy, but the system cannot receive list of available package.

$pkg_info (/usr/local/www/pkg_mgr.php) returns an empty array.

thanks

[eri--]

Show how you have configured the proxies?

[cornacchia]

System=>Advanced>Miscellaneous:

Proxy URL: proxy.myhost.it

Proxy Port: 8080

Proxy Username: mydomain\mysamaccountname

Proxy password: mydomaninpassword

[eri--]

What happens if you put http://proxy.myhost.it

[cornacchia]

Firmware upgrade works.. but the list of available package return always "Unable to communicate with www.pfsense.com….."

[sbranky]

same problem, I do not receive the list of packages working under proxy.

The updates work fine instead.

[eri--]

I do not have a proxy to test so some more feedback is needed.
packet traces with full packet content would be nice.

[cornacchia]

I had a look at the code…

I think the problem is authentification method..our proxy support NTLM auth..

system firmware upgrade, use php CURL to download latest version ...while the package manager use

php's pear XML-RPC class to receive the package list, and this class use fsockopen.

[jhigham]

Check to see if any upstream security appliances are blocking.  I had the same issue and noticed that my SA was blocking 'WEB-PHP xmlrpc.php post attempt' when attempting to connect to 69.64.6.21 for list of Available Packages.  The Firmware updates were working fine but the Available Packages were being blocked.