Clint Dilks wrote: > export http_proxy=\/alid at proxy.example.com:80 > export http_proxy='\/alid at proxy.example.com:80' > export http_proxy="\/alid at proxy.example.com:80" > export http_proxy=\\\/alid at proxy.example.com:80 > I think I'd try... export http_proxy="\\/alid at proxy.example.com:80" which I didn't see in your examples. but... I thought it was user:password at hostname, not password at hostname ??