G'day!
I've been using Debian GNU/Linux for about two years now, on my home
machines and at school. Recently (as in this year) I was introduced to the
wonders of apt-get. I love it. I used it at work all the time.
But I'm back at high school. My school uses BESS, the filtering proxy of
choice I guess. From what I can see, BESS uses a varient of Squid, and that is
my background info.
What I've found is that I cannot use apt-get from inside the school. All
HTTP/FTP ports are blocked at the router, so I've tried using the http_proxy
env var with apt-get.
This is what happens:
# export http_proxy="http://bess-proxy1.caps.maine.edu:8695/";
# apt-get update
Get http://http.us.debian.org stable/main Packages
0% [Packages 0/28.0k 0%] [Packages `Connecting to bess-proxy1.caps.maine.edu'
http: Bad header line
Get http://http.us.debian.org stable/non-free Packages
0% [Packages 0/28.0k 0%] [Packages `Connecting to bess-proxy1.caps.maine.edu'
33% [Packages `Connecting to bess-proxy1.caps.maine.edu (130.111.42.6)' 0]
[Cmpstdin: unexpected end of file
http: Bad header line
gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
Fetched 28.0k in 0s (106k/s)
ERROR http://http.us.debian.org/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
Bad return code from subprocess
ERROR http://http.us.debian.org/dists/stable/non-free/binary-i386/Packages.gz
Bad return code from subprocess
Does anyone have an idea on how to fix this?
Thank you all very much,
Austin Brower
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