Re: APT and Proxies
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Yves Lavoie wrote:
> Hi,
> my proxy requires id to let me out and I don't see any ways to go around
> that. There are no documented ways to enter the information in APT.CONF
> and the PROTOCOL_PROXY variables don't support the syntax
> http://user:password@www.something.com. Any ideas? I tried with debian
The proxy variables *do* support the syntax you gave above. If you do
export http_proxy=http://user:password@proxy/ then you will be
authenticated. Authentication is doing following the HTTP/1.1 standard
proxy authentication which should be supported by your proxy.
Jason
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