title: How to make Anaconda work behind HTTP proxy (not https)?
body: <p>I'm having trouble working with Anaconda behind a proxy at work.</p>
  
  <p>When I have have the following environment variables:</p>
  
  <pre><code>http_proxy: http://domain\username:password@corp.com:8080
  https_proxy: https://domain\username:password@corp.com:8080
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>or just</p>
  
  <pre><code>http_proxy: http://server\username:password@corp.com:8080
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>set up then git works. But Anaconda does not work.
  I'm trying to run </p>
  
  <pre><code>conda update conda
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and I get:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Could not connect to https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs....
  Could not connect to https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs....
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Does Anaconda not work with http? and requires an https proxy? Because I'm thinking my company may not have an https proxy server setup (I've only seen them use http).
  or sometimes I get the error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>File "c\Anaconda2\", line 340, in wait
      waiter.acquire()
  KeyboardInterrupt
  Could not connect to https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs....
  Could not connect to https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs....
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I'm using Windows 7.</p>