Hello Timothy, this bug is fixed by the commit 2363. It is present in the last alpha tarball: ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/wget/wget-1.12-2392.tar.bz2.
Or you can apply this small patch. === modified file 'src/host.c' --- src/host.c 2010-05-08 19:56:15 +0000 +++ src/host.c 2010-05-25 16:36:02 +0000 @@ -874,6 +874,9 @@ lw = strlen (what); for (i = 0; list[i]; i++) { + if (list[i][0] == '\0') + continue; + for (j = strlen (list[i]), k = lw; j >= 0 && k >= 0; j--, k--) if (c_tolower (list[i][j]) != c_tolower (what[k])) break; Cheers, Giuseppe Timothy Rafael Cardenas2 <ticar...@lexmark.com> writes: > This is a minor issue with the wget no_proxy env var parsing. If a > trailing comma is left on the string containing all addresses not to be > used with the proxy server then wget simply reports back with timeout > errors. Adding a trailing comma is a common practice in ubuntu and to > ensure that this issue does happen again i would imagine a better error > message or just a small special case added to the parsing routine of wgets > env vars. > > > no_proxy=localhost,127.0.0.0/8, > > wget google.com > --2010-06-24 09:40:21-- http://google.com/ > Resolving google.com... 209.85.225.105, 209.85.225.106, 209.85.225.147, > ... > Connecting to google.com|209.85.225.105|:80... timeout > > no_proxy=localhost,127.0.0.0/8 (notice the missing comma) > > > wget google.com > --2010-06-24 09:48:34-- http://google.com/ > .... > Saving to: `index.html' > > [ <=> ] 8,179 --.-K/s in 0.001s > > 2010-06-24 09:48:34 (9.59 MB/s) - `index.html' saved [8179] > > Tim