Hi, I have find a bug in GNU Wget 1.13.4 :
wget "$edt_url" --config="$wget_config" \ --post-data="login=$edt_login&password=$edt_password&action=Connexion" \ --keep-session-cookies --save-cookies '/tmp/edt_cookies.txt' \ -O '/dev/null' -nv -a "$log" is not equivalent to wget "$edt_url" \ --post-data="login=$edt_login&password=$edt_password&action=Connexion" \ --keep-session-cookies --save-cookies '/tmp/edt_cookies.txt' \ -O '/dev/null' -nv -a "$log" --config="$wget_config" In the first case, wget runs correctly. In the second case, wget ignores --config. $wget_config is a file who contains proxy parameters. cat $wget_config http_proxy = http://????.????:????@10.10.28.5:3128 use_proxy = on wait = 15