I'm also having this problem in Lucid, but it's no longer in just some cases (as I was experiencing with Karmic) but now with all URLs that require proxy access. They all fail with the message: "failed: Connection timed out." I'm wondering if this bug could be related: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wget/+bug/554068
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