From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Jan 28 00:19:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA17119 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 00:19:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA17103 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 00:19:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@cain.gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id SAA10741; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 18:48:42 +1030 (CST) Message-Id: <199801280818.SAA10741@cain.gsoft.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Bill Fenner cc: Tim Vanderhoek , Warner Losh , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DRAFT: ports.7 In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 27 Jan 1998 23:45:32 PST." <98Jan27.234546pst.177476@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 18:48:42 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >I suppose I could just change fetch so it uses http_proxy and ftp_proxy as > >well :) > Uh... are you talking about something other than the HTTP_PROXY and > FTP_PROXY environment variables? Yes, well every other program which you can set the proxies with env vars. you use http_proxy, and ftp_proxy. Examples of programs which use this are Netscape, lynx, wget, and ftp (in -current anyway :) --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | ---------------------------------------------------------------------