The bug Roland reported is real, and occurs in 2013 with Debian 6
installer. There should indeed be a distinction between an APT proxy and
a general-purpose HTTP proxy. Our APT proxy knows how to serve up files
related to Debian mirrors, but can't do general-purpose HTTP retrievals
such as preseed/run files from our PXE server.
Currently mirror/http/proxy affects http_proxy globally, for all
subsequent calls to wget. Might be better to not do that; instead, on
each APT-related call to wget, if mirror/http/proxy has a value, then
temporarily store it in http_proxy, call wget, and then restore
http_proxy to its prior value.
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