> I cannot get apt-get to work with an HTTP proxy. I'm using squid as the
> proxy server.
>
It is working for me (although I have it as a line in /etc/apt/apt.conf).
> I issue the following commands:
>
> export http_proxy="http://server:3128/"; (where server is the name of the
> proxy machine)
> apt-get install blah (where blah is an actual package
> name :-)
>
> And I get the following:
> Err http://http.us.debian.org stable/main wget 1.5.3-1.1
> 504 Gateway Time-out
> Failed to fetch
> http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/web/wget_1.5.3-1.1.deb
> 504 Gateway Time-out
> E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe try with --fix-missing?
>
> On the proxy server, looking at /var/log/squid/access.log I see:
>
> 316055347.030 119543 xx.xx.xx.xx TCP_MISS/504 1161 GET
> http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/web/wget_1.5.3-1.1.deb
> - DIRECT/http.us.debian.org -
>
Perhaps you had a DIRECT directive line in /etc/apt/apt.conf?
[07:32:50 tcl8.3]$ zgrep "DIRECT" /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.g
z
Proxy::http.us.debian.org "DIRECT"; // Specific per-host setting
Proxy::http.us.debian.org "DIRECT"; // Specific per-host setting
[07:33:05 tcl8.3]$
Posting your /etc/apt/apt.conf might help.
> When I test the proxy with lynx it works fine. What's the deal?
>
>
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