Re: [Bug-wget] wget suggestion

[Hrvoje Niksic]

Giuseppe Scrivano <address@hidden> writes:

> > Why doesn't wget use the system proxy settings?
> > (ubuntu 10.04)
> 
> you can be interested in this previous discussion:
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2010-07/msg00007.html
>
> Does it solve the problem for you?

That thread doesn't really address the question of Wget "using the
system proxy setting" that the OP is asking for.  I've just tried the
following sequence of steps:

1. configure a proxy in (ubuntu/gnome) system->preferences->network
proxy
2. start a new shell (a real new user could skip this step, but I wanted
to give a system a chance to maybe set up the env vars)
3. attempt to use wget
3a. attempt to use google chrome

As a naive user, I would expect Wget to honor the system proxy settings,
like google chrome does.  As a power user, I would expect Ubuntu to
convert the proxy settings into environment variables used when spawning
new shells to give programs like Wget a fighting chance of working
correctly.

It seems a good idea to query the "system" proxy settings on systems
where such a concept is available, at least by default.