Calibre fails with proxy after upgrade

[John H]

Hi,

I've updated from 0.8.8 to 0.8.13 version and data fetch from internet stopped working. Calibre recognizes proxy correctly but fails to get response. I installed 0.8.8 again instead of 0.8.13 and all data fetching functions like RSS and book queries works like a charm.
This behaviour is same for both portable and normal version of Calibre.
Any idea? This was seen on an old machine running Win XP SP2 behind corporate proxy but as I mentioned 0.8.8 works fine.

/John
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InputFormatPlugin: Recipe Input running
Using proxies: {'ftp': 'proxy.x.y.com:8080', 'http': 'proxy.x.y.com:8080', 'https': 'proxy.x.y.com:8080'}

Failed feed: Posts
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\web\feeds\news.py", line 1286, in parse_feeds
File "site-packages\mechanize-0.2.4-py2.7.egg\mechanize\_mechanize.py", line 203, in open
File "site-packages\mechanize-0.2.4-py2.7.egg\mechanize\_mechanize.py", line 230, in _mech_open
File "site-packages\mechanize-0.2.4-py2.7.egg\mechanize\_opener.py", line 193, in open
File "site-packages\mechanize-0.2.4-py2.7.egg\mechanize\_urllib2_fork.py", line 344, in _open
File "site-packages\mechanize-0.2.4-py2.7.egg\mechanize\_urllib2_fork.py", line 332, in _call_chain
File "site-packages\mechanize-0.2.4-py2.7.egg\mechanize\_urllib2_fork.py", line 1142, in http_open
File "site-packages\mechanize-0.2.4-py2.7.egg\mechanize\_urllib2_fork.py", line 1118, in do_open
URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 10060] A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond>

Python function terminated unexpectedly
No articles found, aborting (Error Code: 1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site.py", line 132, in main
File "site.py", line 109, in run_entry_point
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\ipc\worker.py", line 181, in main
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\convert\gui_conversion.py", line 25, in gui_convert
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\conversion\plumber.py", line 937, in run
File "site-packages\calibre\customize\conversion.py", line 204, in __call__
File "site-packages\calibre\web\feeds\input.py", line 105, in convert
File "site-packages\calibre\web\feeds\news.py", line 737, in download
File "site-packages\calibre\web\feeds\news.py", line 882, in build_index
ValueError: No articles found, aborting

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[kovidgoyal]

Newer versions of calibre have support for https proxies. Apparently your https proxy is incorrectly configured. Remove it from your internet enplorer connection settings and you should be fine.

[John H]

Confirmed. I've removed https config leaving it empty in IE Explorer and tested 0.8.13. Works flawlessly.
Thanks for fast reply and thank you for the Calibre !

[kovidgoyal]

You're welcome