[ILUG] anyone using TCD's annoying proxy setup?

[Brian Brazil]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 02:20:09PM -0700, gabriel gryffyn wrote:
> right, that works perfectly well in the web browsers,
> but i've no idea how to configure apt or other
> non-browser programs to work with it.

For apt-get add
Acquire::http::Proxy "http://username:password@proxy2.tcd.ie:8001";
to your /etc/apt/apt.conf with appropraite substitutions.
You'll probably want to make it 600.

For wget - in your .wgetrc put
ftp_proxy=http://proxy2.tcd.ie:8001/
http_proxy=http://proxy2.tcd.ie:8001/
proxy_user=username
proxy_passwd=password

There's a http_proxy enviroment variable you can set but I don't think
you can set a user/password with it which makes it pretty useless in
this case.

There is a tcd-linux-users mailing list that you should join.

Brian Brazil

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