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From: "Vladimir V. Egorin" <vladimir@math.uic.edu>
To: ian j hart <ianjhart@freeloader.freeserve.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: fetch problem
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In-Reply-To: <3A5243C1.4314EDCB@freeloader.freeserve.co.uk>; from ianjhart@freeloader.freeserve.co.uk on Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 09:10:25PM +0000
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On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 09:10:25PM +0000, ian j hart wrote:
> "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.
> > 
> > Fetch fails with the messages:
> > 
> > >> libtool-1.3.4.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.
> > >> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/.
> > fetch: libtool-1.3.4.tar.gz: Protocol error
> > 
> > Does anyone know why this is happening?
> > Many thanks,
> > 
> > --
> > Vladimir
> 
> Don't set FTP_PROXY. Set HTTP_PROXY something like this
> 
> username:password@hostname.domain:port
> 
> eg.
> setenv HTTP_PROXY proxy_address:1080
> 
> The prococol part of the URL is the problem I think.
> 
> See man 3 fetch
> 
> -- 
> ian j hart
> 
> 
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This solves it.  fetch works if FTP_PROXY is not set.  Many thanks to
everyone for your replies and help.

-- 
Vladimir


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