i dont know what is the problem i m getting

[veda82]

in .bashrc file i added the following line.

export http_proxy="http://my username:my password@ip address:3128".

after this i could able to access internet through my fire fox browser.

but in console if type the following command. it is saying bad prot number and terminating.

# wget http://netweb.usc.edu/huang/talk/ns-...s-berkeley.ppt
Error parsing proxy URL http://my username:my password@ip address:3128 : Bad port number.

what is the problem. with the above settings i m getting internet with fire fox browser but not from console. why??????

[anomie]

It's hard to know the answer when you substitute in fake values (which I don't blame you for; I wouldn't share my password either).

So: Do you have any special characters in that password? Some special characters (e.g. #) will confuse wget when he tries to parse http_proxy.

If so, change your password to something else with only letters and numbers temporarily. Once you have identified the offending special character, you can change it to a strong password again (and avoid that specific character).