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?
>>
>>
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> Everest K.C.
> BE Computer Engineering
> Institute of Engineering, Pulchowk Campus
> URL: http://www.everestkc.com.np
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