From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 28 9: 5:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E69CD37B971 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 09:05:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id UAA02065; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 20:08:40 +0200 Message-ID: <3981AF6B.56B43C10@i-clue.de> Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 18:06:03 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: so@server.i-clue.de Organization: i-clue interactive GmbH X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jaakko J Kiviluoto Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP installation through HTTP proxy References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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