cabal-install fails on WinXP

[Alistair Bayley]

2009/4/16 Duncan Coutts <duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk>:
> Try:
>
> cabal fetch binary -v3
>
> It should give you plenty of detail on the HTTP conversation. Could you
> also file a ticket pointing out how useless the default error message is
> when the download fails. We should at least tell the user the HTTP error
> code.

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/545


fetch -v3 output below. Seems to be trying to use a proxy, but that's
not necessary as the machine is "directly" connected (via a router).

Alistair

C:\bayleya\haskell>cabal fetch binary -v3
Reading installed packages...
("c:\\ghc\\ghc-6.10.1\\bin\\ghc-pkg.exe",["dump","--global"])
("c:\\ghc\\ghc-6.10.1\\bin\\ghc-pkg.exe",["dump","--user"])
Reading available packages...
Warning: The package list for 'hackage.haskell.org' is 16 days old.
Run 'cabal update' to get the latest list of available packages.
Resolving dependencies...
selecting binary-0.4.4 (hackage) and discarding binary-0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.4.1,
0.4.2, 0.4.3 and 0.4.3.1
selecting bytestring-0.9.1.4 (installed or hackage) and discarding
bytestring-0.9, 0.9.0.1, 0.9.0.2, 0.9.0.3, 0.9.0.4, 0.9.1.0, 0.9.1.1, 0.9.1.2
and 0.9.1.3
selecting ghc-prim-0.1.0.0 (installed)
selecting rts-1.0 (installed)
selecting containers-0.2.0.0 (installed or hackage) and discarding
containers-0.1.0.0 and 0.1.0.1
selecting array-0.2.0.0 (installed or hackage) and discarding array-0.1.0.0
selecting syb-0.1.0.0 (installed or hackage)
selecting base-3.0.3.0 (installed) and 4.0.0.0 (installed) and discarding
syb-0.1.0.0
selecting integer-0.1.0.0 (installed)
Downloading binary-0.4.4...
GET
http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/binary/0.4.4/binary-0.4.4.tar.gz
Sending:
GET /packages/archive/binary/0.4.4/binary-0.4.4.tar.gz HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: cabal-install/0.6.2
Host: hackage.haskell.org
proxy uri host: lonproxy.lon.invesco.com, port: :6080
Creating new connection to lonproxy.lon.invesco.com:6080
cabal: getHostByName: does not exist (no such host entry)