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Why does wget fail with “503 Service Unavailable” Error?

I've upgraded from Ubuntu 10.04 to 12.04. Now for some files wget keeps on failing with a 503 Service Unavailable Error: $ wget ...
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http_proxy - not working with sudo [closed]

I am working on RHEL6 behind a proxy at my workplace. In order to make wget and other applications work, I modified my /etc/environment and added definitions for http_proxy, https_proxy, and ...
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wget behind a proxy

I am trying to get wget running behind a proxy. Since Ubuntu didn't support providing authentication information for the proxy (the one in the system settings), I had to use a ntlm proxy (in my case, ...
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Why does applying system-wide network proxy settings affect only the superuser (root)? [closed]

I recently solved my problem How to check if Network Proxy is really applied? Now I can use sudo apt-get install application-name easily - but the problem is that the normal user (not the superuser) ...