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On precise wget honours the proxy inside sudo:

0 jan@tunis:/tmp$lsb_release -d
Description:	Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS
0 jan@tunis:/tmp$sudo echo $http_proxy
http://proxy.aims.ac.za:3128/
0 jan@tunis:/tmp$sudo wget www.ubuntu.com
--2014-04-24 18:01:02--  http://www.ubuntu.com/
Resolving proxy.aims.ac.za (proxy.aims.ac.za)... 192.168.42.2
Connecting to proxy.aims.ac.za (proxy.aims.ac.za)|192.168.42.2|:3128... connected.
Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 17268 (17K) [text/html]
Saving to: `index.html.1'

100%[======================================>] 17 268      --.-K/s   in
0,001s

2014-04-24 18:01:02 (12,9 MB/s) - `index.html.1' saved [17268/17268]

0 jan@tunis:/tmp$

On trusty, it does not:

ift@gift-laptop:~$ lsb_release -d
Description:    Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
gift@gift-laptop:~$ sudo echo $http_proxy
[sudo] password for gift:
http://proxy.aims.ac.za:3128/
gift@gift-laptop:~$ sudo wget www.ubuntu.com
--2014-04-24 19:04:22--  http://www.ubuntu.com/
Resolving www.ubuntu.com (www.ubuntu.com)... 91.189.89.103
Connecting to www.ubuntu.com (www.ubuntu.com)|91.189.89.103|:80... failed: Connection refused.
gift@gift-laptop:~$ 

This is going to break most of the advice on the internet to e.g. sudo
wget somesite/some-apt-key.

** Affects: wget (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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wget does not honour proxy inside sudo
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1312267
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