Am Sa, den 21.02.2004 schrieb Telmo Silva um 01:10: > Ok, thanks, just one more question. Should I put > > export https_proxy=https://proxy:portnum/ > > or > > export https_proxy=http://proxy:portnum/ > > Thanks, It obviously depend whether the proxy need SSL encrypted connection (https://) or normal (http://) connection. Standard is an unencrypted connection to port 3128 or 8080 i.e. So export https_proxy=http://proxy:portnum/ would be most common. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 Fedora GNU/Linux Core 1 (Yarrow) on Athlon CPU kernel 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl Sirendipity 01:25:16 up 1 day, 2:59, load average: 0.30, 0.14, 0.17 [ ÎÎÏÎÎ Ï'ÎÏÏÎÎ - gnothi seauton ]