Comment 3 for bug 556293

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Arvind (arvind0) wrote : Re: sudo does not keep http_proxy environment variable

It's not just apt-get. I have noticed the same issue with wget.

wget works fine through the proxy when run as user and as root (through sudo -s)

However sudo wget ___ fails to use the proxy settings.
The same settings work fine in 9.10