I work behind a firewall which allows connections to WWW thro a proxy I was successfully able to run YOU, System Upgrade etc..once i entered username/passwd for the proxy. When i am done entering my settings , a pop up says wget..etc.will immediately use it,however all my wgets fail with proxy authentication denied. linux:~ # wget http://google.com --17:28:31-- http://google.com/ => `index.html' Connecting to 192.168.124.9:80... connected. Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 407 Proxy Authentication Required ( The ISA Server requires authorization to fulfill the request. Access to the Web Proxy service is denied. ) 17:28:31 ERROR 407: Proxy Authentication Required ( The ISA Server requires authorization to fulfill the request. Access to the Web Proxy service is denied. ). Any pointers Digz