On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 2:56 PM, narendran krishnan <[email protected]> wrote: > I am trying to make wget work from behind a proxy. i have set the > proxy in 'http_proxy' environment variable and using this command > > wget --proxy-user="myname" --proxy-passwd="passwd" > http://www.iitm.ac.in/downloads/newsupdates/GJ%20&%20Research%20Park.ppt
It's not advisable to pass username/passwords in the command line for any application. Anyone running "ps" can see the entire command line and thus know your password. Instead set the username/password in your http_proxy, ftp_proxy environment variables themselves like this: export http_proxy="http://username:passw...@hostname:port"; export ftp_proxy="http://username:passw...@hostname:port"; Don't type the above in your bash prompt, put it in a shell script or your .bash_profile and set appropriate file permissions. - Raja _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
