rosinstall behind Proxy

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Rosinstall calls out to svn, git, bzr, or hg depending on what repositories you are trying to pull down. If you can make sure that those commands work, then rosinstall should start working.

If you can't get them to work using the environment, another possibility is to setup a squid transparent proxy. There are quite a few howtos if you search google

A few notes, as I recently had to deal with this:

Git Proxies

Git has it's own command line flag for proxies, and can be set by executing the following:

git config --global http.proxy http://proxyuser:proxypwd@proxy.server.com:8080

Subversion Proxies

Subversion's proxies can be set through the ~/.svn/servers file in the [global] section:

[global]
# http-proxy-exceptions = *.exception.com, www.internal-site.org
http-proxy-host = proxy.server.com
http-proxy-port = 8080
# http-proxy-username = proxyuser
# http-proxy-password = proxypwd

Wget Proxies

Wget and curl both acknowledge the http_proxy, https_proxy, and ftp_proxy that you mention above.

Mercurial Proxies

Mercurial should acknowledge the command line http_proxy, but if it doesn't, you can always set up your hgrc file.

[http_proxy] host = proxy.server.com:8080 user = proxy user passwd = proxypwd

APT Proxies

Apt should acknowledge the command line http_proxy.

With SUDO

sudo will clear out your proxy environment variables by default (meaning no proxy with any sudo'ed (sudid?) commands). To prevent this from happening, add the following to your /etc/sudoers file:

Defaults env_keep = "http_proxy https_proxy ftp_proxy"