I'm sure you know that you can use 'wget' behind a proxy customizing (or
creating) a file called $HOME/.wgetrc
Check out 'man wget' for details.

bye

Nikol Su escribió:

> On Fri, 20 Apr 2001 07:39:51 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am having problems with Mandrake Update. Am I the only one?
> >
> > When I click on Mandrake Update it works for a long time and
> > then reports an error:
> >
> > Error while fetching the list of upgrade packages, try with
> > another mirror.
> >
> > Other mirrors produce the same error. Any suggestions?
>
> I have this problem for the box behind the firewall wall while using a
> proxy server outside the firewall.
>
> wget does not pick up the ftp_proxy and http_proxy. So I configed the
> settings within MU. I can see wget tries to connect to the proxy server
> under netstat, but nothing happens both with the http and ftp mirrors for
> MU. I have not really bothered to check what has gone wrong.
>
> --
> Nikol

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