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Ludwig
Ludwig

Reputation: 832

Error parsing proxy URL. Bad port number

When I use wget command in RHEL 6.5, getting the error

Error parsing proxy URL. Bad port number.

The command used to set the proxy was

export http_proxy="http_proxy://username:password@address:port/".

Yes I know this issue can be resolved by using

http_proxy=address wget --proxy-user=username --proxy-password=<password> url.

But I want to install a package and during installation, it will need to download few other packages. so the proxy should be already set and ready before the installation. How can we resolve this?

Upvotes: 13

Views: 21303

Answers (3)

Line
Line

Reputation: 1651

I set up the proxy on Ubuntu using general system settings (manual option).

The problem was I pasted the proxy URL with a port, while the port is also separately specified there, in different field.

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Upvotes: 0

Deeraj V
Deeraj V

Reputation: 1

make us Use of "--no-proxy" Example : wget https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub --no-proxy

This will elimimate the current proxy and try to download what ever we need..

Upvotes: 0

Ludwig
Ludwig

Reputation: 832

The password I used caused this issue as it had a # in it. I replaced # with %23 [UTF encoding] and now this is working fine.

Upvotes: 29

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