[Bug-wget] action on "not able to connect to proxy"

[Mohan gupta]

hello everyone ,
greetings on my first mail to the list!!

Well I am using wget as a full webcrawler .Now I am behind my
university proxy and i wanted to know what is the action taken by wget
when the proxy server is off. I have configured it to use a proxy
server and for retrieving urls it has been configured to make atmost 5
attempts.
In my system wget takes url from a database and retrieves them. When
say proxy server is off i expect wget to exit() itself and not just
pick url's from database and keep getting timedout  on them.

Is it what it really does??

I do not want wget to erroneously destroy my database of urls.!!

Thanks in anticipation!.
Mohan