On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 8:25 PM, Ralph Boland <rpboland [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com> wrote: > During Installation I was asked for HTTP proxy information. > > It requested information of the form: > http://[[user][:pass]@]host[:port] > > I answered with: "MyHostName" > > If I must give a different value for the HTTP proxy > what value am I supposed to give? > What is a HTTP proxy anyway? > This is most likely your problem. An http proxy is an intermediary through which web traffic passes before going to it's real destination. If you are not actually running a proxy on your machine, this reroute through yourself will fail because no proxy will actually be listening. If you're unsure what to put for proxy, you almost definitely want it to be blank. -z