title: How to use PEAR behind proxy?
body: <p>Initially I used the following with no success;</p>
  
  <pre><code>export http_proxy=http://username@password:host:port
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Worth noting I don't get a connection error directly, instead;</p>
  
  <pre><code>[root@pal ~]# sudo pear info  PHP_CodeSniffer-1.2.1
  No information found for `PHP_CodeSniffer-1.2.1'
  </code></pre>