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From: "Vladimir V. Egorin" <vladimir@math.uic.edu>
To: David Burren <david@burren.cx>
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Subject: Re: fetch problem
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On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 09:01:15AM +1100, David Burren wrote:
> "Vladimir V. Egorin" wrote:
> 
> >>> I've set
> >>> export FTP_PROXY=ftp://proxy_address:1080/
> >>> export HTTP_PROXY=http://proxy_address:1080/
> >>> I've also tried setting FTP_PASSIVE_MODE.
> 
> > ian j hart wrote:
> 
> >> setenv HTTP_PROXY proxy_address:1080
> 
> > This solves it.  fetch works if FTP_PROXY is not set.  Many thanks to
> > everyone for your replies and help.
> 
> Unfortunately, over time different programs have looked for different
> env vars to control this.  The setup I use that seems to work for
> everything is (translated to your example):
> 
> 	export HTTP_PROXY=proxy_address:1080
> 	export http_proxy=http://$HTTP_PROXY/
> 	export ftp_proxy=$http_proxy
> 
> If you were specifying $ftp_proxy to point to a joint FTP/HTTP proxy,
> you would typically specify that it should use "http" to talk to it.
> 
> As you said, fetch works with just HTTP_PROXY.  I think it's lynx which
> uses the other variables.  I set them up a long time ago and everything

The other variables (http_proxy and ftp_proxy) are also used by ftp.
Here is another problem:  I cannot use /usr/bin/ftp with this setup.
For lynx, fetch, the proxy does DNS resolution, but ftp calls
gethostbyname(), which fails for any addresses that are not a part of
internal network.

> just works.
> __
> David Burren

-- 
Vladimir


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