s3cmd through a proxy

For those who use Amazon's EC2/S3 cloud.

sodo@linux-8u67:~/Downloads/s3cmd-1.0.0> ./s3cmd --configure

Enter new values or accept defaults in brackets with Enter.
Refer to user manual for detailed description of all options.

Access key and Secret key are your identifiers for Amazon S3
Access Key: enter accesskey
Secret Key: enter secretkey

Encryption password is used to protect your files from reading
by unauthorized persons while in transfer to S3
Encryption password:
Path to GPG program [/usr/bin/gpg]:

When using secure HTTPS protocol all communication with Amazon S3
servers is protected from 3rd party eavesdropping. This method is
slower than plain HTTP and can't be used if you're behind a proxy
Use HTTPS protocol [No]:

On some networks all internet access must go through a HTTP proxy.
Try setting it here if you can't conect to S3 directly
HTTP Proxy server name [http-proxy]:
HTTP Proxy server port [8888]:

New settings:
 Access Key: enter accesskey
 Secret Key: enter secretkey 
 Encryption password:
 Path to GPG program: /usr/bin/gpg
 Use HTTPS protocol: False
 HTTP Proxy server name: http-proxy
 HTTP Proxy server port: 8888

Test access with supplied credentials? [Y/n] y
Please wait...
Success. Your access key and secret key worked fine :-)

Now verifying that encryption works...
Not configured. Never mind.

Save settings? [y/N] y
Configuration saved to '/home/sodo/.s3cfg'

sodo@linux-8u67:~/Downloads/s3cmd-1.0.0> ./s3cmd ls
2011-04-05 19:03  s3://testbucket
2011-03-26 04:42  s3://trendtop

Yay! It works.
sodo

Also, I received this error message from YaST2 using SuSE Enterprise Linux 11 64-bit 11.1:
Problem: nothing provides python(abi) = 2.6 needed by s3cmd-1.0.0-4.1.i586

Resolution: install manually from http://s3tools.org/s3cmd

Reference
http://www.saltycrane.com/blog/2010/02/s3cmd-notes/