Hmm, I wonder if there might be a problem with the apt.conf file after
all. I have pasted mine below, note that Acquire is on the top level and
not under APT!

  Acquire {
    http {
      Proxy "http://pixs.htc.nl.philips.com:8080";;
    };
  
  };
  
  APT {
    Default-Release "unstable";
    Get::Purge "true";
    Cache-Limit 25165824;
  };

Hope it helps.

/M

On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 11:15:34AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 09:56:47AM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote:
>    > On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 04:18:07PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>    > > Hello,
>    > > 
>    > > I am facing some problems in getting apt-get to retrieve files through 
>    > > http proxy setting. I tried the following:
>    > > 
>    > >    1. Set the environment variable as
>    > > 
>    > >          export  HTTP_PROXY="http://203.195.221.129:3128";
>    > > 
>    > >       Still when I give apt-get update, I get messages telling that
>    > >       connection is refused from the hosts (www.debian.org,
>    > >       marillat.free.fr, et al.)
>    > > 
>    > >    2. Created /etc/apt.conf as below:
>    > > 
>    > >         APT {
>    > >           Acquire {
>    > >              http {
>    > >                Proxy "http://203.195.221.129:3128";;
>    > >              };
>    > >           };
>    > >         };
>    > > 
>    > >       Still the same result.
>    > > 
>    > > Browsing the docs threw up the second solution. 
>    > > 
>    > > My question is how can I make apt-get to retrieve the files with the
>    > > above setting? FWIW, I am able to download files using wget by putting
>    > > the above setting in /etc/wgetrc.
>    > 
>    > AFAIK you also have to make sure that the sources.list contains
>    > repositories with the correct fetch method, i.e. http.
>    > 
> I do have them. In fact, I wan not facing any problems with apt-get. One
> fine day, browsers, wget et al. stopped working and on enquiry came to
> know that the isp had introduced the proxy server. It is from that point
> of time, I am getting this error. OK, here is the snippet from my
> sources.list:
> 
>    deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
>    
>    # Security updates for woody
>    deb http://security.debian.org/ woody/updates main contrib non-free
>    
>    # MPlayer
>    deb http://marillat.free.fr/ testing main
> 
> Here is the output:
> brahman:~# apt-get update
> Err http://marillat.free.fr testing/main Packages
>   Could not connect to marillat.free.fr:80 (212.27.35.5). - \
>     connect (111 Connection refused) [IP: 212.27.35.5 80]
> Err http://marillat.free.fr testing/main Release
>   Could not connect to marillat.free.fr:80 (212.27.35.5). - \
>     connect (111 Connection refused) [IP: 212.27.35.5 80]
> ...
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Sridhar M.A.
> 
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> 
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