From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 23 05:00:55 2008 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B891106567B for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Fri, 23 May 2008 05:00:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from raghu@mri.ernet.in) Received: from hrimail.hri.res.in (hrimail.hri.res.in [210.212.50.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 902E68FC0C for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Fri, 23 May 2008 05:00:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from raghu@mri.ernet.in) Received: from ipc2.mri.ernet.in (unknown [192.168.3.2]) by hrimail.hri.res.in (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1295397E50; Fri, 23 May 2008 10:36:47 +0530 (IST) Received: from ipc2 (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ipc2 (Postfix) with SMTP id 28F111D5E6; Fri, 23 May 2008 10:30:30 +0530 (IST) Received: from riemann.mri.ernet.in (riemann.mri.ernet.in [192.168.3.122]) by ipc2.mri.ernet.in (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A38014CAE; Fri, 23 May 2008 10:30:30 +0530 (IST) Received: from riemann.mri.ernet.in (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by riemann.mri.ernet.in (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m4N4sQWS049787; Fri, 23 May 2008 10:24:26 +0530 (IST) (envelope-from raghu@riemann.mri.ernet.in) Received: (from raghu@localhost) by riemann.mri.ernet.in (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id m4N4s2kM049786; Fri, 23 May 2008 10:24:02 +0530 (IST) (envelope-from raghu) From: "N. Raghavendra" <raghu@mri.ernet.in> To: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20080523010356.7a875a5a@gumby.homeunix.com.> (RW's message of "Fri, 23 May 2008 01:03:56 +0100") References: <004301c8bc18$3f419a00$c500000a@SupportDela> <20080523010356.7a875a5a@gumby.homeunix.com.> X-Organization: Harish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI) X-Address: Chhatnag Road, Jhusi, Allahabad 211 019, India X-URL: http://www.mri.ernet.in/ and http://www.retrotexts.net/ X-Phone: +91 (532) 2667 509, 2667 318, 2667 578, 2567 746, 2567 747 X-Fax: +91 (532) 2667 576, 2567 748, 2567 444, 2568 036 X-OpenPGP-Key-ID: 0x03618806 X-OpenPGP-Key-Fingerprint: C75D D0AF 457E 7454 BEC2 37AD C6E1 0407 0361 8806 X-OpenPGP-Public-Key-Available-At: http://www.keyserver.net/ Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 10:24:02 +0530 Message-ID: <868wy18vth.fsf@riemann.mri.ernet.in> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd behind a proxy X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "N. Raghavendra" <raghu@mri.ernet.in> List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions> List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 05:00:55 -0000 At 2008-05-23T01:03:56+01:00, RW wrote: > You might conceivably need to set ftp_proxy and the capitalised > versions: HTTP_PROXY and FTP_PROXY, but I think everything should > fall-back to http_proxy. Not everything, perhaps. E.g., fetch(3) does --- for FTP requests it uses the first variable that is set among FTP_PROXY, ftp_proxy, HTTP_PROXY, and http_proxy. AFAIK, wget(1) doesn't --- if ftp_proxy is unset, it doesn't use a proxy for FTP requests, even if http_proxy is set. Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra <raghu@mri.ernet.in> | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri.ernet.in/ See message headers for contact and OpenPGP information.