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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


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