On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Drake Diedrich wrote: > redundantly met by dpkg-ftp, dpkg-http, and apt? Two reasons to still use > dpkg-http rather than apt are for (weird) authenticating web caches and the APT supports HTTP/1.1 complient authenticated web proxies, uses the form: export http_proxy=http://user:pass@proxy/ If I recall, check the man page. Next version should support weird authenticated ftp proxies too I'm told. Jason