Connection timeout when getting plugin list or updating Eclipse PDT

Question

I'm working on win 7 and trying to get Zend Eclipse to run properly for a CakePHP project. But when try to access the plugin list via the welcome page I get this error:

A problem occurred while accessing the update site. RemoteBundleDiscoveryStrategy failed with an error Unable to read repository at http://downloads.zend.com/studio-eclipse/updates-extra/10_0/pdt_directory.xml. Connect timed out

I've tried severalt solutions I found on the net but nothing worked. My proxy settings are fine since I can access all sites via the internal browser of eclipse. My guess is, that there is some restriction in the Windows administration that is keeping me from getting the plugin list.

When I try to update Eclipse the update window tries half an hour to contact the software site and after that I get this error message:

Some sites could not be found. See the error log for more detail. Communication with repository at http://downloads.zend.com/studio-eclipse/updates/10_0 failed. Connect timed out

Answer 1

Finally!!

The problem was that is were actually two problems. First one was that Eclipse wasn't saving the username and password for the proxy settings. After finally finding the eclipse error log in

"{eclipse-workspace}/.metadata/.log"

(there seems to be no way to view the file in zend-eclipse itself) I found out that Eclipse was trying to save the password-file into the Administrator's user directory but had no access. (Oh what a surprise)

Putting this into the "zend-eclipse-php.ini" worked for me:

-eclipse.keyring C:\eclipse\keyring.txt

After this was done I could finally save username and password for the proxy but still no connection. When I took another look into the error log I found this error:

"!MESSAGE System property http.proxyHost is not set but should be {proxyname} !MESSAGE System property http.proxyPort is not set but should be {proxyport}"

and 4 more for https and socks. After googling this error I came upon a fixed bug: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=281472 where it states that maybe the proxy refuses SOCKS. So I cleared the settings for SOCKS and tried again and IT WORKED! Finally!

Hope this description can anyone else with these problems.