[plug] Re: Using wget

[David Buddrige]

Thanks heaps - this is what I was after. 8-) 

cheers 

David. 

Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima writes: 

> 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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