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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510

Description of problem:
up2date fails to use the proxy when connecting.
 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
4.3.19

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run up2date --configure and enter valid proxy:port and authentication
   user and password, Hit OK 
2. run up2date -l
3.
    

Actual Results:  I see the program trying to access the web sites
since I get a firewall log entry that shows me the machine is trying
directly. 
Unless a proxy is used, we don't allow machines to get out to the web.

Expected Results:  Expected it to continue downloads of headers,
packages etc .. 

Additional info:

None