Calibre Unable to fetch Metadata from the server

[estrovichm]

My computer is using a proxy script i nthe form of

AutoConfigURL = http://****.com/naproxy.pac

when I start Calibre in the Debug mode I get the following error:

link hasn't been detected!
link hasn't been detected!
Using proxies: {'ftp': ':', 'http': ':'}
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre\gui2\update.pyo", line 21, in run
File "mechanize\_mechanize.pyo", line 209, in open
File "mechanize\_mechanize.pyo", line 236, in _mech_open
File "mechanize\_opener.pyo", line 191, in open
File "urllib2.pyo", line 401, in _open
File "urllib2.pyo", line 361, in _call_chain
File "mechanize\_http.pyo", line 729, in http_open
File "mechanize\_http.pyo", line 685, in do_open
File "httplib.pyo", line 656, in __init__
File "httplib.pyo", line 668, in _set_hostport
InvalidURL: nonnumeric port: ''
Job: 1 Get device information finished
No details available.
Job: 2 Get list of books on device finished
No details available.
Using proxies: {'ftp': ':', 'http': ':'}
Using proxies: {'ftp': ':', 'http': ':'}
link hasn't been detected!
link hasn't been detected!

[kovidgoyal]

Unfortunately calibre doesn't have a way to manually specify proxy information if autodetection fails.

[estrovichm]

I've brought my laptop home, and disabled the proxy script in my internet explorer but I still get the same error ? any ideas what else can I try ?

[kovidgoyal]

In the next release, I'll have calibre ignore invalid proxies, that should fix your problem, at least at home.

[estrovichm]

Thanks for your help.

[DblD]

Having same issues with both fetching of news and meta data resulting in :
"httplib.InvalidURL: nonnumeric port: '3128/'"

As far as I can tell the proxy is not being used at present by my system i.e. it set to Direct Internet Connection" in network proxy preferences.

Running :
Calibre 0.6.24
Ubuntu 9.04

How does one find out where/when Calibre gathers this proxy information for proxy settings?

[kovidgoyal]

on linux proxy information is fetched from the environment variable http_proxy

[DblD]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

on linux proxy information is fetched from the environment variable http_proxy

I know this is a silly, Q but does Calibre it read http_proxy env. var. on every start?
Here is my problem, I can confirm that the http_proxy var is empty, yet when Calibre starts it reads it out.. also i chked usual suspects who set this var..

[kovidgoyal]

yes it reads it on every start.