Re: How can I use dselect from behind a firewall?

[Damon Muller <dm-debian-user@empire.net.au>]

Quoth Bristow Paul-BPB007, 
> I'm in a similar situation to this but my proxy requires a password to
> get through it.  Is there anyway I can do this?

Set the following environment variables:

http_proxy="http://user:pass@proxy:8080";
ftp_proxy="http://user:pass@proxy:8080";

Where `user' and `pass' are your username and password for the proxy, of
course.

cheers,

damon


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