Package: choose-mirror
Version: N/A; reported 2004-08-26
Severity: normal
Using choose-mirror in a daily netinst tarball downloaded 2004-08-24,
a problem arose trying use to a web-proxy that authenticates against
a windows domain, requiring the following syntax:
http://DOMAN\user:password@proxy.site.domain:port/
If used on the command line, it must be:
a# http_proxy=http://DOMAN\\user:password@proxy.site.domain:port/ wget <blah>
but for the entirety of setup process except the first usage by
choose-mirror, the backslash does not need to be doubled.
Choose-mirror itself is not undoubling the \'s, since it goes into the
debconf database with \\, but I suspect it once calls wget like a#
above, while anna uses net-retriever which only works if the response
from debconf has a single \.