Re: http proxy

[Carey Evans <c.evans@clear.net.nz>]

Jeff Beley <jbeley@astcorp.com> writes:

> I recently setup an authenticating proxy using squid, however whenever i run 
> dselect it tells me proxy authentication required, how do i set this?
> I alredy have http_proxy set correctly...

I recently got this working for my brother with not too much hassle.
Using apt-get, we set the http_proxy to 'http://login:password@proxy:80/'
and away it went.

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