This howto describe how to ssh outside another network / server using authenticated proxy. SSH (Secure Shell) is typically used to log into a remote machine and execute commands, but it also supports tunneling, forwarding TCP ports and X11 connections; it can transfer files using the associated SFTP or SCP protocols. Read the rest of this entry…

This howto describe how to run wget behind authenticated proxy to download files. GNU Wget is a package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive commandline tool, so it may easily be called from scripts, cron jobs, terminals without X-Windows support, etc.

GNU Wget comes as default software with almost every distribution, so we are going to just configure it to start downloading using authenticated proxy. Read the rest of this entry…