[pca] impossible to load some patches

[Martin Paul]

Hi Scott,

> For some reason, I have a habit of setting "--wgetproxy" manually on the
> command line when I run pca so maybe that's why things have worked in the
> past even though I didn't have "https_proxy" set in wgetrc?

Yes, that's likely. PCA deals with the proxy setting in a different way than 
wget: Depending on whether it's accessing an HTTP or HTTPS URL, it will set 
either http_proxy or https_proxy to the value defined with "--wgetproxy".

Theoretically it doesn't matter whether you configure the proxy with PCA's 
"wgetproxy" option or with wget's "http_proxy" and "https_proxy" options. In 
your case using /.wgetrc is probably better, as you need to set "proxy-user" and 
"proxy-passwd" as well. Configuring these settings in a wgetrc file also has the 
advantage that wget will also work when used outside of PCA.

> BTW:  if it wasn't clear, my current problem has been solved [dumb user
> error].

I'm glad to hear that, especially as it turned out not to be a problem with PCA 
or Oracle's server :)

Martin.