RE: wget and HTTP_PROXY question

2008-05-20 Thread Bruce Dobrin
If all you really want is to get this to work then I should mention that Wget appears to want lowercase (http_proxy rather than HTTP_PROXY) as well as wanting the USE PROXY set to "on" in the .wgetrc file. You could script your various rc files to change case, or you could just set the proxy in t

Re: wget and HTTP_PROXY question

2008-05-20 Thread Hugh Sasse
On Tue, 20 May 2008, 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: Running it with -d should encourage it to be more verbose about where it fails. Hugh -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: wget and HTTP_PROXY question

2008-05-20 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
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 Cygw

Re: wget and HTTP_PROXY question

2008-05-20 Thread Markus Schönhaber
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 Among the environment variables wget recognizes is http_proxy not HTTP_PROXY. Regards