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Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 17:29:14 +0100
From: "DePriest, Jason R." <jrdepriest AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: wget and HTTP_PROXY question
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On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Ronald Fischer <> wrote:
> I can't fetch anything from the web using wget (Connection timed out).
> My guess is that it has to do with the proxy settings, but:
>
> - my environment variable HTTP_PROXY is set, and
> - from a Windows command line (i.e. outside of Cygwin), tools
> (such as the package manager of ActiveState Perl) *can* use
> the proxy specified here, without problems.
>
> What can I do to get wget working?
>
> Ronald
>
>

Try putting your preferences settings in a .wgetrc file.
[file]
http_proxy = "proxy:port"
https_proxy = "proxy:port"
proxy_user = "user"
proxy_password = "password"
[/file]

-Jason

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