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On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 12:20:42 +0000 Simon Waters <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Grant Sewell wrote: > > > > Thanks! I've not read that howto yet, but from the title... I can > > already browse the web by setting the proxy information in the > > browser itself. It works fine, it's just using apt (and other > > command-line based tools). > > In that case the http_proxy variable will sort most applications. > > export http_proxy=http://proxy.example.com:3128 > > > Apt will usually store proxy settings in /etc/apt/apt.conf, it stores > those used during installation in there by default. > > Not sure of hand the support ways to alter apt.conf (apt-config isn't > friendly enough), but vi works ;) > > cat /etc/apt/apt.conf > Acquire::http::Proxy "http://proxy.example.com:3128";; > > The document was for those cases where only IEs authentication method is > permitted. You see, that's what's confusing me. I can set the proxy information in Firefox (I've not tried with other browsers yet) and it works. Setting the environment variable *should* then work, but it doesn't. Even when I set it with the full details (username:password@proxy:port) it won't work. I get responses back from the ISA server that amount to an authentication error... arghg! I will try the ntlmaps thingy next time I'm in College... thankfully it's in the Debian Testing repository :D Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html