Giuseppe Scrivano <gscriv...@gnu.org> writes: > > Why doesn't wget use the system proxy settings? > > (ubuntu 10.04) > > you can be interested in this previous discussion: > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2010-07/msg00007.html > > Does it solve the problem for you?
That thread doesn't really address the question of Wget "using the system proxy setting" that the OP is asking for. I've just tried the following sequence of steps: 1. configure a proxy in (ubuntu/gnome) system->preferences->network proxy 2. start a new shell (a real new user could skip this step, but I wanted to give a system a chance to maybe set up the env vars) 3. attempt to use wget 3a. attempt to use google chrome As a naive user, I would expect Wget to honor the system proxy settings, like google chrome does. As a power user, I would expect Ubuntu to convert the proxy settings into environment variables used when spawning new shells to give programs like Wget a fighting chance of working correctly. It seems a good idea to query the "system" proxy settings on systems where such a concept is available, at least by default.
