diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8d52a66..6418d8e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 [![Package](https://img.shields.io/bintray/v/lucidsoftware/apt/apt-boto-s3.svg)](https://bintray.com/lucidsoftware/apt/apt-boto-s3/_latestVersion)
 
 The *fast* and *simple* S3 transport for apt. Access S3-hosted apt repositories via the AWS APIs.
+In this fork was added support for proxy servers.
 
 ## Why apt-boto-s3?
 
@@ -69,6 +70,16 @@ deb s3://AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE:wJalrXUtnFEMI%2FK7MDENG%2FbPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY@my-bu
 
 URL credentials take precendent when present.
 
+## Proxy
+If access to S3 requires a proxy, the proxy can be set in `/etc/apt/apt.conf`.
+
+Example:
+```sh
+Acquire::http::Proxy "http://proxy-01.server:PORT";
+Acquire::https::Proxy "http://proxy-02.server:PORT";
+Acquire::ftp::Proxy "http://proxy-03.server:PORT";
+```
+
 #### Signature version
 
 Hopefully, this should "just work" and you can ignore this.
diff --git a/s3.py b/s3.py
index 5f557a1..a7b30be 100755
--- a/s3.py
+++ b/s3.py
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
 import threading
 import urllib
 import urlparse
+import os
+from botocore.config import Config
 
 class Settings(object):
     def __init__(self):
@@ -304,8 +306,12 @@ def _handle_message(self, message):
                 region_name=region or 'us-east-1',
                 botocore_session=botocore_session,
             )
+            if len(ProxyForS3.proxies)>0:
+                config_lrn = Config(signature_version=s3_uri.signature_version(), proxies=ProxyForS3.proxies)
+            else:
+                config_lrn = Config(signature_version=s3_uri.signature_version())
             s3 = session.resource('s3',
-                config=botocore.client.Config(signature_version=s3_uri.signature_version()),
+                config=config_lrn,
                 endpoint_url=s3_uri.endpoint_url(),
             )
             s3_object = s3.Bucket(bucket).Object(key)
@@ -365,10 +371,27 @@ def _handle_message(self, message):
                     ('URI', uri),
                 )))
 
+
+class ProxyForS3():
+    proxies = {}
+
 if __name__ == '__main__':
+    if os.path.isfile('/etc/apt/apt.conf'):
+        with open('/etc/apt/apt.conf') as file:
+            for line in file.readlines():
+                if line.startswith('Acquire::http::Proxy'):
+                    (key, value) = line.split(' ')
+                    ProxyForS3.proxies['http'] = re.sub('[;"]', '', value).rstrip()
+                if line.startswith('Acquire::https::Proxy'):
+                    (key, value) = line.split(' ')
+                    ProxyForS3.proxies['https'] = re.sub('[;"]', '', value).rstrip()
+                if line.startswith('Acquire::ftp::Proxy'):
+                    (key, value) = line.split(' ')
+                    ProxyForS3.proxies['ftp'] = re.sub('[;"]', '', value).rstrip()
+
     # interrupt signals are sometimes sent
     def signal_handler(signal, frame):
         pass
     signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, signal_handler)
 
-    PipelinedAptMethod(S3AptMethodType(), Pipes(sys.stdin, sys.stdout)).run()
+    PipelinedAptMethod(S3AptMethodType(), Pipes(sys.stdin, sys.stdout)).run()
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