title: Configuring PIP to work from behind a proxy
body: <p>I've installed python 3.4.3 which comes with <code>pip</code>. I want to use pip from behind a proxy so I did the following:</p>
  
  <p>Created <code>C:\Users\foo\pip\pip.ini</code> and added a proxy configuration section:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[proxy]
  export http_proxy=my_proxy_server:1234
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However, when I try to run pip to install packages, I get timeout messages:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>C:\Users\foo>pip install paramiko Requirement already satisfied (use
    --upgrade to upgrade): paramiko in c:\python3 4\lib\site-packages\paramiko-1.16.0-py3.4.egg Collecting
    pycrypto!=2.4,>=2.1 (from paramiko)   Retrying (Retry(total=4,
    connect=None, read=None, redirect=None)) after connec tion broken by
    'ConnectTimeoutError(, 'Connection to
    pypi.python. org timed out. (connect timeout=15)')': /simple/pycrypto/</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in Adv.!</p>