Re: Problems with wget.

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 09:49:56AM +0200,  Petrov M.I. wrote:
> I do wget ftp://bla.bla.bla.bla/file
> Error: Proxy ftp://proxy.one.two.three:3128/ must be HTTP.  
[...]
> http_proxy = http://proxy.one.two.three:3128/                           
> ftp_proxy = ftp://proxy.one.two.three:3128/                             

That error message means that you need this instead:

  ftp_proxy = http://proxy.one.two.three:3128/

In this case, if you think about it, that configuration couldn't be
correct, because you can't have both an HTTP server and an FTP server
listening on the same port.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]