HTTP_PROXY, wget, and portage

lamer · n00b Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 16 Location: St. Paul, Mn

The variable HTTP_PROXY in make.conf should actually be http_proxy to be recognized by wget. If you need to specify a proxy url you should either do
http_proxy="proxy.domain.tld:3128"

or

HTTP_PROXY="proxy.domain.tld:3128"
http_proxy="${HTTP_PROXY}"

JefP@@ · Posted: Tue May 28, 2002 10:52 am Post subject:

thx for the info, but most of us already figured that out

Grtz

TheMole · Posted: Fri May 31, 2002 5:17 pm Post subject:

Damn, and I went and hacked the wget config files

thnx m8

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