Wget and proxy:question

Hi all,

I have a Linux PC behind a proxy; I can download stuff (http and ftp)
and surf with any browser once I set correctly the proxy, but wget
doesn't want to work.
I tried with and without the option --no-passive-ftp , and setting the
proxies in the env variables, and/or in the /etc/wgetrc file, and then
activating --use_proxy = on, in various combinations, but I'm still
stuck.
Searching the net has not helped; can anybody explain me what's exactly
the problem? Here is some output:

[leo@alab174 IFM]$ wget -S -d
ftp://ftp.gentoo.mesh-solutions.com/...tar.bz2.md5sum
DEBUG output created by Wget 1.10 on linux-gnu.

--18:55:03--
ftp://ftp.gentoo.mesh-solutions.com/...tar.bz2.md5sum
=> `portage-20060525.tar.bz2.md5sum'
Resolving www-proxy.physi.uni-heidelberg.de... 129.206.32.243
Caching www-proxy.physi.uni-heidelberg.de => 129.206.32.243
Connecting to
www-proxy.physi.uni-heidelberg.de|129.206.32.243|:3128...
connected.
Created socket 3.
Releasing 0x0808a348 (new refcount 1).
Logging in as anonymous ...

Error in server response, closing control connection.
Closed fd 3
Retrying.
[ and so on...]

The file exists, I downloaded it with firefox, and I tried also some
files with http protocol, to exclude it was a problem with ftp.

Can anybody help?

Thanks, Leodp

Ok, I found a way out, althought I don't understand it.

I had:
http_proxy=http://www-proxy.blah-blah.de:3128
ftp_proxy=ftp://www-proxy.blah-blah.de:3128
wget works with http but not with ftp.

If I set:
http_proxy=http://www-proxy.blah-blah.de:3128
ftp_proxy=http://www-proxy.blah-blah.de:3128
I have wget working with ftp too.

If anybody can tell me what's that, I'll thank her/him.

Ciao, Leodp

leodp wrote:
> Ok, I found a way out, althought I don't understand it.
>
> I had:
> http_proxy=http://www-proxy.blah-blah.de:3128
> ftp_proxy=ftp://www-proxy.blah-blah.de:3128
> wget works with http but not with ftp.
>
> If I set:
> http_proxy=http://www-proxy.blah-blah.de:3128
> ftp_proxy=http://www-proxy.blah-blah.de:3128
> I have wget working with ftp too.
>
> If anybody can tell me what's that, I'll thank her/him.

The proxy ist "tunneling" your requests/downloads between your PC and the proxy
inside http.

In other words the proxy "speaks" internal http to your PC and uses the
requested protocol http/https/ftp for the calls towards the rest of the world.

>
> Ciao, Leodp
>

Lothar