[plug] Using wget

[Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima]

On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, David Buddrige wrote:

> Hi all, 
> 
> I'm trying to use wget to download a website.  Here is the command line I am 
> using: 
> 
> wget --proxy=on --proxy-user=myusername --proxy-passwd=myproxypassword 
>  --mirror http://website-of-interest 
> 
> My problem is this.  It does not specify the proxy that I want to use, nor 
> does it specify the port.  I have been looking in the manual page but have 
> not been able to determine how to specify this. 

you can either do it via the environment:
export http_proxy="http://host:port/"
wget ....

on the command line:
wget -e 'http_proxy="http://host:port/" <rest of args>

Put it (http_proxy="http://host:port/) in either of /etc/wgetrc or ~/.wgetrc

HTH

Yours Tony

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