How to setup proxy authentication in the Debian shell?

Question

I think that once I used

export http_proxy=http://user:password@address:port/

successfully. But now when I use wget it shows

Error parsing proxy URL http://user:passwordaddress:port/: Bad port number.

Why it ignores the @ symbol? How to make it work?

I also tried

wget --proxy-user=USERNAME --proxy-password=PASSWORD 

But it returned

Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 407 Proxy Authentication Required 2011-06-09 14:01:18 ERROR 407: Proxy Authentication Required.

Solution

Did you try the following syntax ?

   http_proxy=http://address:port/ wget --proxy-user=USERNAME --proxy-password=PASSWORD http://url

Comments

[Stéphane Chazelas]

Does the user or password contain a # or / character by any chance? In which case you may need to URI-encode it (%23, %2F).