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bamarob
05-12-2004, 04:51 PM
I can't get wget (or ftp for that matter) to work from my knoppix laptop sitting behind my company's firewall. Wierd thing is, when I enter my proxy settings in konqueror, I can hit http and ftp sites fine from it. When I try to ftp to a site from a command line, it times out. I can ping remote sites from a command line fine. I've tried setting an environment varible to my proxy (i.e. HTTP_PROXY=http://10.10.10.17:8080, FTP_PROXY=http://10.10.10.17:8080), but this doesn't seem to help.

I want to be able to use wget to mirror my website to my laptop. Any ideas?

Thanks,

BR

mzilikazi
05-12-2004, 06:37 PM
Now I don't want to sound like your mamma or anything but had you read the man page for wget you would have seen that there is a file called /etc/wgetrc for just this situation.

HTH

bamarob
05-12-2004, 06:41 PM
mzilikazi,

You didn't sound like my mommy at all. :D

Thanks a bunch. I'll check it out.

BR

bamarob
05-12-2004, 06:47 PM
Works perfectly, now! Thanks.