PEAR COMMAND UNDER FIREWALL

Sirs, After reinstalling PHP4.38 and some workarounds because of a firewall, I manage to install PEAR-PACKAGES. And as some PEAR packages are not provided during installation, I have to command 'pear install <package>' in DOS PROMPT to install other packages, such as HTML and AUTH packages. However, I get the message below whenever I try H:\php4\pear install Auth or H:\php4\pear install HTML or any command which requires connection to a remote server. Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to pear.php.net:80 in xml_rpc_client: Connection to RPC server pear.php.net failed I know this problem happens because of the firewall. I opened RPC.php on line 469 and insert the IP proxy and port parameters but kept on returning the same error. I wonder if I just download such packages and rename them (eg.,Auth-1[1].3.0r3 for Auth) under my tree I would have any problems. Can you help me out solving this? Best regards Érico