Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 18:06:03 +0200 From: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de> To: Jaakko J Kiviluoto <jjkivilu@cs.Helsinki.FI> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP installation through HTTP proxy Message-ID: <3981AF6B.56B43C10@i-clue.de> References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0007281134520.20131-100000@melkinkari.cs.Helsinki.FI>
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Jaakko J Kiviluoto wrote: > > I'd like to install FreeBSD to a machine that has a fixed connection but > is behind a paranoid firewall that doesn't allow normal FTP connections. > Instead, it requires a connection through HTTP proxy (for instance, > Netscape can access all ftp sites fine, since it uses the HTTP proxy, but > normal command- line ftp gets stuck). Even the tradidional FTP > gateway/proxy (described in install guide chapter 2.2.1.6) doesn't do, the > only way would be throught the HTTP proxy. > > So, how would this be possible or do I really have to burn it to a CD > first? Try export HTTP_PROXY="my.proxy.host:portnumber" export FTP_PROXY="my.proxy.host:portnumber" in [ba]sh, or setenv HTTP_PROXY "my.proxy.host:portnumber" setenv FTP_PROXY "my.proxy.host:portnumber" in [t]csh. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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