You may try adding HTTP_PROXY as an environmental variable. I've had to do this for our proxy for updated to a RHE box, but I only had to point to the proxy, not enter authentication information, so I don't know if this will work for you or not. Scott On 4/19/06, Raymond Norton <admin at lctn.org> wrote: > I am having problems getting yum and wget to work properly. I get the > following error with either one. > > Connecting to download.fedora.redhat.com|66.187.224.20|:80... connected. > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 400 Bad Request > 08:23:01 ERROR 400: Bad Request. > > We are using squid with authentication on an IPCop box. which > is most likely causing the problem, but I am not sure what to put in the > config to fix it. > > > > I have added the following to yum.conf, but that has not helped. > > http_proxy=http://user:pass@10.100.100.130:8080 > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- - G. Scott Walters http://www.apt518.net