On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 11:24:06AM +0200, Mark Janssen wrote: > On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 11:17, James D. wrote: > > Hi, > > I've just succeeded installing woody on my new Dell Inspiron 4100 > > laptop (it took me 4 days!!! because i've just switched to debian). > > I often bring my laptop to work in the library, but i don't know how > > to make debian connect to the Internet through a proxy (although i > > have username and password for the proxy). Any suggestion would be > > appreciated, > > Easy.... (it's the same as with lynx, wget, curl etc) > > Just set the ftp_proxy and/or http_proxy environment variables: > > export http_proxy=http://your.proxy.host:port/ > export ftp_proxy=$http_proxy
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