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Bug#268158: "syntactically-correct"?



If you mean syntactically correct as in changing:
http_proxy=http://DOMAN\user:password@proxy.site.domain:port/
into
http_proxy=http://DOMAN/user:password@proxy.site.domain:port/
then wget tries to connect to DOMAIN:80 as a http proxy, with
the expected failure that brings.

It's definately being eaten by the shell. The problem is that
none of the other wget invocations (or any other parts of the
installer) give the shell a chance to eat it, which indicates
that it's a bug in choose-mirror.

I can't find a svnweb for choose-mirror, so I've not seen the
source, but I'm guessing it passes the proxy to the shell for
wget in the format I described as a# previously. If it rather
were to set http_proxy in the environment before calling wget
then the shell wouldn't get a chance to interfere and I could
use the format I'd have expected to use, and that is the only
format the _rest_ of the installer understands.

This is how net-retriever does it, for reference.

-- 
Paul "TBBle" Hampson, on an alternate email client.



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