How to export http_proxy when username contains an @ symbol?
 

Hi all,

First post here, hope I'm in the right area. I've searched t'internet in general and on this forum, but can't find an answer to this one...

I would like to get http proxying working from the console, but as my Linux box is behind a corporate network it just so happens that my username for the proxy server contains an @ symbol. So, when I try to use the following type of command:

I insert my username and end up with something like:

This seems to break things, presumably because something is parsing everything after the first @ as the address of the proxy.

Can anyone give me any hints as to how I can get it to work? I've tried # and % as delimiters but just get different errors, as presumably the proxy server itself isn't set up to accept anything other than @.


As an aside, the only reason I really need to get this to work is so that I can try to use YUM from the console, as when I put an openSuSE 10.3 repository in as an installation source, YaST's Online Update utility just disappears shortly after I run it. So, if anyone has any bright ideas on that one then it'll avoid the need to fix the proxy issue!


Many thanks in advance,
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Olly

Welcome!

Try to escape the @ character with a backslash \, and see if it works. You can also set up a .wgetrc/.netrc file, that has the proxy_user and proxy_passwd variables set, and that may work for you.

Hi there!

Thanks for the suggestion... I had a go with username\@domain@proxy.domain but it still falls over, wget gives the error:

Resolving domain@proxy.domain... failed: Name or service not known.

I guess the first time it sees an @ it figures whatever is after that is supposed to be the address of the proxy.

I'll have a play with .wgetrc and see if it helps :o)

Cheers,
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Olly

Hallo,

I made a .wgetrc with the separate proxy_user and proxy_passwd fields set, and that works perfectly for wget!

Sadly, setting similar fields up for yum in /etc/yum.conf did not work - presumably yum cannot parse a username with an @ in. :o(

Back to the drawing board!

Many thanks,
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Olly

Glad it helped some. Tried this http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/sn...xy-server.html ?

Can't you simply change the username ...or add another username that does not have the @ symbol?

The domain controller is very much not under my control, what with it belonging to the IT department of a multinational company :o)