From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Apr 22 04:19:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA20091 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 04:19:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shale.csir.co.za (shale.csir.co.za [146.64.46.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA20063 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 11:19:49 GMT (envelope-from reg@shale.csir.co.za) Received: (from reg@localhost) by shale.csir.co.za (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA13130; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 13:19:11 +0200 (SAT) (envelope-from reg) Message-ID: <19980422131911.A12877@shale.csir.co.za> Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 13:19:11 +0200 From: Jeremy Lea To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/6371: fetch(1) uses HTTP_PROXY for ftp requests when FTP_PROXY undefined Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org References: <199804221040.DAA12418@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199804221040.DAA12418@hub.freebsd.org>; from Martin Cracauer on Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 03:40:00AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi... On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 03:40:00AM -0700, Martin Cracauer wrote: > What we need here is a standard for $..._PROXY environment variables > that allows us to control the protocol and the kind of url seperatly, > preferrably without breaking older clients. The http_proxy and ftp_proxy env variables used by ncftp look like so: setenv http_proxy http://proxy.domain.com:port setenv ftp_proxy http://proxy.domain.com:port Which I think is better. It would be nice if fetch and ncftp used the same settings... -Jeremy -- .sig.gz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message