Everest's suggestion worked for me. Thanks. :) On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 8:32 PM, Gaurav Ghimire <[email protected]> wrote: > What browser are you using ? I would recommend you use firefox to browse > through your proxy server, and not play with the system's proxy settings as > far as possible, in either case resetting the proxy should change it back to > normal and there should not be a need to do anything extra then undoing what > you did earlier to put those proxy servers in the first place. However, > searching through google it seems that this behavior has been there since > long and what everest suggested is an easy way. > > On another note, if at your campus, you administer the proxy server, try > running a transparent proxy server, this way a user would not be required to > change anything at their end. > > Regards, > Gaurav > > > > On May 26, 2012, at 7:55 PM, Everest K.C. wrote: > > try > export http_proxy="" > export ftp_proxy="" > export https_proxy="" > it resets your proxy back. it worked for me. > when i checked using env|grep proxy.I didn't find proxy! > > On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 8:40 AM, nabeen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> We use a proxy server at campus, and I set up ubuntu to use the same. Now >> when i get back home, I unset the proxy from GUI. The browser works fine. >> apt-get seems to work, and ubuntu software center does too. The problem is >> with wget and axel (the ones I noticed). They seem to be still using the >> proxy. I will include a snapshot: >> >> nabeen@nabeen-Aspire-4738Z:~/Downloads$ axel >> http://docs.python.org/archives/python-2.7.3-docs-html.tar.bz2 >> Initializing download: >> http://docs.python.org/archives/python-2.7.3-docs-html.tar.bz2 >> Unable to connect to server 202.70.91.13:8080 >> >> The one thing i tried to solve this issue was 'env -u http_proxy', But >> env|grep proxy has the output unchanged: >> >> nabeen@nabeen-Aspire-4738Z:~/Downloads$ env |grep proxy >> http_proxy=http://202.70.91.13:8080/ >> ftp_proxy=ftp://202.70.91.13:8080/ >> https_proxy=https://202.70.91.13:8080/ >> >> I am sure there must be a way to fix this. Anyone mind giving me a hand? >> >> >> >> -- >> FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] >> http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> Mailing List Guidelines: >> http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines >> Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ > > > > > -- > With Regards, > Everest K.C. > BE Computer Engineering > Institute of Engineering, Pulchowk Campus > URL: http://www.everestkc.com.np > > > > -- > FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > Mailing List Guidelines: > http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines > Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ > > > -- > FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > Mailing List Guidelines: > http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines > Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/
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