Error parsing proxy URL. Bad port number

Question

When I use wget command in RHEL 6.5, getting the error

Error parsing proxy URL. Bad port number.

The command used to set the proxy was

export http_proxy="http_proxy://username:password@address:port/".

Yes I know this issue can be resolved by using

http_proxy=address wget --proxy-user=username --proxy-password=<password> url.

But I want to install a package and during installation, it will need to download few other packages. so the proxy should be already set and ready before the installation. How can we resolve this?

Answer 1

The password I used caused this issue as it had a # in it. I replaced # with %23 [UTF encoding] and now this is working fine.