wget doesn't accept http_proxy environment variable

[A. S. Popov]

Binary package hint: wget

I run:
http_proxy=http://myprox.mycompany.ru wget -O - http://www.google.ru

I see:
cyberone@cyberone-laptop:~/Downloads$ http_proxy=http://10.224.4.2:3129 wget http://ya.ru
--2010-03-18 17:13:40-- http://ya.ru/
Resolving ya.ru... ^C

I have:

 cyberone@cyberone-laptop:~/Загрузки$ LANG=C wget --version
GNU Wget 1.12 built on linux-gnu.

+digest +ipv6 +nls +ntlm +opie +md5/openssl +https -gnutls +openssl
-iri

Wgetrc:
 /home/cyberone/.wgetrc (user)
 /etc/wgetrc (system)
Locale: /usr/share/locale
Compile: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DSYSTEM_WGETRC="/etc/wgetrc"
 -DLOCALEDIR="/usr/share/locale" -I. -I../lib -g -O2
 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -O2 -g -Wall
Link: gcc -g -O2 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -O2 -g -Wall -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions
 /usr/lib/libssl.so /usr/lib/libcrypto.so -ldl -lrt ftp-opie.o
 openssl.o http-ntlm.o gen-md5.o ../lib/libgnu.a

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[Lorenzo De Liso (blackz)]

Hello,
thanks for making ubuntu better.
I have tried with other proxy and it works.

Regards,

Lorenzo D. (alias BlackZ).

[A. S. Popov (cyberone-mail)]

Oh, yeah, I've just removed /etc/wgetrc and everything is OK now

[nomike (michael-postmann)]

I'm using the current stock vanilla "wget" of Ubuntu "Lucid" with no "~/.wgetrc" and no "/etc/wgetrc" and proxy support still does not work:

nomike@sion:~$ cat ~/.wgetrc
cat: /home/nomike/.wgetrc: No such file or directory
nomike@sion:~$ cat /etc/wgetrc
cat: /etc/wgetrc: No such file or directory
nomike@sion:~$ export http_proxy="http://proxy-sd.s-mxs.net:8080"
nomike@sion:~$ export ftp_proxy="http://proxy-sd.s-mxs.net:8080"
nomike@sion:~$ echo $http_proxy
http://proxy-sd.s-mxs.net:8080
nomike@sion:~$ echo $ftp_proxy
http://proxy-sd.s-mxs.net:8080
nomike@sion:~$ wget http://www.google.com/
--2010-07-06 19:44:14-- http://www.google.com/
Auflösen des Hostnamen »www.google.com«.... fehlgeschlagen: Name or service not known.
wget: kann die Host-Adresse »»www.google.com«« nicht auflösen

However lynx is honoring the "*_proxy" environment variables.

[LostInBrittany (lostinbrittany)]

I have exactly the same problem that nomike, also in Lucid, with no "~/.wgetrc" and no "/etc/wgetrc"

[LostInBrittany (lostinbrittany)]

It seems it's the same proble that bug 232469. The culprit is the "no_proxy" environment variable, that in Lucid has a trailing comma. Wget gets confused by that comma.

unsetting no_proxy variable, or setting it to the same value without the trailing comma solves the problem.