[Bioperl-l] Configuring BioPerl::DB for a fire wall

[Kevin Clancy]

Hi Folks,

I'm using Perl behind a firewall. When I installed the 0.6.1 stable build, I 
received the following message when running tests:

  /usr/ccs/bin/make  -- OK
Running make test
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl -Iblib/arch -Iblib/lib 
-I/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503/i86pc-solaris -I/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503 
-e 'use Test::Harness qw(&runtests $verbose); $verbose=0; runtests @ARGV;' 
t/*.t
t/Annotation........ok
t/Blast.............sh: gzip: not found
ok
...<CUT>
t/CodonTable........ok
t/DB................IO::Socket::INET: Interrupted system call at 
blib/lib/Bio/DB/GenBank.pm line 283
Warning: Couldn't connect to Genbank with Bio::DB::GenBank.pm!
{Probably no network access.
Skipping Test
IO::Socket::INET: Interrupted system call at blib/lib/Bio/DB/GenPept.pm line 
277
Warning: Couldn't connect to Genbank with Bio::DB::GenPept.pm!
Probably no network access
ok
t/hmmer.............ok
All tests successful.
Files=24,  Tests=183, 130 wallclock secs ( 7.34 cusr +  1.00 csys =  8.34 
CPU)

How do I configure Perl/BioPerl to work with a proxy server, so that I can 
get through the firewall to perform DB queries?

Thanks
kevin

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