Using wget with proxy

Upendra Pratap Singh · 05-01-2015, 04:31 PM

I have got a proxy server through which I access Internet. When I try install some software using wget I get the following error.

How to get rid of this provided that I have my own username and password to access the Internet through proxy server?

Can you just give an example with a sample username and password?

Quote:

snow@snow-Aspire-4738Z:~$ wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/26209128/mac...gz--2015-05-02 02:57:09-- http://dl.dropbox.com/u/26209128/mac_fonts.tar.gz
Connecting to 192.168.1.107:3128... connected.
Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 407 Proxy Authentication Required
2015-05-02 02:57:09 ERROR 407: Proxy Authentication Required.

bathory · 05-02-2015, 02:44 AM

Hi

You can supply the following variables every time in the wget command, but it's better to create a .wgetrc file in your homedir to define them once:

Code:

use_proxy = on
http_proxy= http://my-proxy:port
proxy_user=my_username
proxy_pass=my_password

See also the manpage for more options

Regards