Re: preset wget variables?

On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Tony Vissoc wrote:

> Can I set environment variables that wget will use by default? I have
> to use a proxy to get out HTTP. How and where do I set these if this is
> possible..

~/.wgetrc or $prefix/etc/wgetrc or $WGETRC (i.e. you can set $WGETRC to a
filename, and wget will load it).

'info wget' will get you all the info: you probably want to have a line like
this in your .wgetrc:
http_proxy = http://proxy.company.com:8080/

> Thanks,
>
> Tony Vissoc

Cheers
Richard
Received on Tue Jul 23 16:01:47 2002