Re: apt-get and proxy setting

["Sridhar M.A." <mas@uomphysics.net>]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 11:50:14PM +1000, Bec Dridan wrote:
   > Sridhar M.A. wrote:
   > 
   > >Hello,
   > >
   > >I am facing some problems in getting apt-get to retrieve files through 
   > >http proxy setting. I tried the following:
   > >
   > >  1. Set the environment variable as
   > >
   > >        export  HTTP_PROXY="http://203.195.221.129:3128";
   > >
   > Do you mean http_proxy? I thought it had to be lower-case.
   > I've also found I needed to have a / after the port as in:
   >    export http_proxy="http://203.195.221.129:3128/";
   > 
   > See if that fixes it.
   > 
Thanks that did it. It worked without the trailing slash.

Regards,

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Sridhar M.A.

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