From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 2 12:55: 7 2001 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 2 12:55:05 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from math.uic.edu (galois.math.uic.edu [131.193.178.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5C89737B400 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 12:55:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 15721 invoked by uid 31415); 2 Jan 2001 20:54:49 -0000 Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 14:54:49 -0600 From: "Vladimir V. Egorin" To: Ravi Jethani Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fetch problem Message-ID: <20010102145448.A15700@math.uic.edu> References: <20010102132905.A15311@math.uic.edu> <5.0.2.1.2.20010103020936.08932118@mail.veetvision.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.2.20010103020936.08932118@mail.veetvision.com>; from ravi@veetvision.com on Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 02:10:47AM +0530 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 02:10:47AM +0530, Ravi Jethani wrote: > Hi Vlad, > > At 01:29 PM 1/2/2001 -0600, Vladimir V. Egorin wrote: > >Dear -STABLE Users, > > > >I ran into some problems with the ports collection (the system is > >4.2-STABLE, built on Dec 21). My machine is sitting behind > >a proxy server (proxying http/ftp requests). > > > >I've set > >export FTP_PROXY=ftp://proxy_address:1080/ > >export HTTP_PROXY=ftp://proxy_address:1080/ > >I've also tried setting FTP_PASSIVE_MODE. > > just wondering how you can run an http and a ftp proxy on the same port ? > I made a typo here; the variables should read export FTP_PROXY=ftp://proxy_address:1080/ export HTTP_PROXY=http://proxy_address:1080/ This doesn't answer your question though. I am not sure how the proxy works (and I have no access to the machine that runs it), but I bet the local machine connects to the proxy on port 1080 and talks to it via some protocol (e.g. specifies the type of request involved (ftp or http)). -- Vladimir To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message