problems with proxy configuration

[nabeen]

We use a proxy server at campus, and I set up ubuntu to use the same. Now when i get back home, I unset the proxy from GUI. The browser works fine. apt-get seems to work, and ubuntu software center does too. The problem is with wget and axel (the ones I noticed). They seem to be still using the proxy. I will include a snapshot:

nabeen@nabeen-Aspire-4738Z:~/Downloads$ axel http://docs.python.org/archives/python-2.7.3-docs-html.tar.bz2

Initializing download: http://docs.python.org/archives/python-2.7.3-docs-html.tar.bz2

Unable to connect to server 202.70.91.13:8080

The one thing i tried to solve this issue was 'env -u http_proxy', But env|grep proxy has the output unchanged:

nabeen@nabeen-Aspire-4738Z:~/Downloads$ env |grep proxy

http_proxy=http://202.70.91.13:8080/

ftp_proxy=ftp://202.70.91.13:8080/

https_proxy=https://202.70.91.13:8080/

I am sure there must be a way to fix this. Anyone mind giving me a hand?

[Everest K.C.]

try 
export http_proxy=""
export ftp_proxy=""

export https_proxy=""
it resets your proxy back. it worked for me.

when i checked using env|grep proxy.I didn't find proxy!

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[Gaurav Ghimire]

What  browser are you using ? I would recommend you use firefox to browse through your proxy server, and not play with the system's proxy settings as far as possible, in either case resetting the proxy should change it back to normal and there should not be a need to do anything extra then undoing what you did earlier to put those proxy servers in the first place. However, searching through google it seems that this behavior has been there since long and what everest suggested is an easy way.

On another note, if at your campus, you administer the proxy server, try running a transparent proxy server, this way a user would not be required to change anything at their end.

Regards,

Gaurav

[nabeen khadka]

Everest's suggestion worked for me. Thanks. :)