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I am trying to use wget for downloading files from a ftp repository. The FTP repository has a login and password. I have to go through a proxy server which does not have a login and password. When I try to use the normal,

wget -r -c ftp://login:pass@download.site.co.in/

I find that it tries to login to the proxy server itself rather than the ftp server causing it to hang at that stage. using --ftp-user and ftp-password has the same effect. How can I get around this?

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This question might be better placed on superuser.com – glenn jackman Mar 24 '11 at 15:51
is the proxy configured in the system? – D4RIO Mar 24 '11 at 16:19
It is configured via environment variable ftp_proxy – Farhat Mar 25 '11 at 9:05
Silly question: is your proxy server also an FTP proxy server? An HTTP proxy server uses the "Host:" line to figure out what page to grab. An FTP proxy server would have to be more clever (ie, know the IP address it's intercepting). – barrycarter Mar 26 '11 at 15:45

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I don't think wget supports the username and password in a URL. Try this form:

wget --user=login --password=pass ftp://download.site.co.in/

Better yet, you can store the username and password in .wgetrc or .netrc to prevent having to specify it on the command-line where it might be seen by other users or stored to a shell history file. I'm not sure about the format of .wgetrc, you can read the man page on wget for that. For .netrc, add a line like:

machine download.site.co.in login login pasword pass

And wget will automatically use that if not specified. Make sure the file is chmod 700 for permissions.

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