Using wget through proxy servers

To use wget through proxies.
Set the environment variable using the following command
export http_proxy="http://proxy.example.com:8080"

Similarly or ftp
export ftp_proxy="http://proxy.example.com:8080"

For proxies that require authentication use --proxy-user=proxyusename --proxy-password=urpassword switch along with the wget command.
For example wget --proxy-user=name --proxy-password=password http://somelocation/index.html

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