From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 26 00:39:44 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E94516A4CE for ; Fri, 26 Nov 2004 00:39:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail-router02.qut.edu.au (mail-router02-eth0.qut.edu.au [131.181.254.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA31743D46 for ; Fri, 26 Nov 2004 00:39:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from timopie@dodo.com.au) Received: from [131.181.233.87] ([131.181.233.87]) by mail-router02.qut.edu.au (MOS 3.4.8-GR) with ESMTP id CAG31814 (AUTH opie); Fri, 26 Nov 2004 10:38:10 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <41A67B3D.1010202@dodo.com.au> Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 10:39:25 +1000 From: timopie User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (X11/20041124) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Junkmail-Status: score=0/50, host=mail-router02.qut.edu.au Subject: problems with http in fetch for ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 00:39:44 -0000 Hi everyone, My primary internet access is at University (secondary is at home an a 56k modem). When I want to use ftp, or cvsup, I have to log onto the firewall in order to access the needed ports. This works great. The only time I ever have a problem is when fetch tries to access files through http rather than ftp (as are most of the files I want in the ports collection). I can get the files manually with firefox, but it is very slow and painful. I tried setting up a .netrc file in /root defining HTTP_PROXY and HTTP_PROXY_AUTH (using the username and password I use to access outside websites) but it still does not fetch through the http. It will sit waiting for quite a few minutes until it times out and goes to the next site on the list - and when getting something from sourceforge it takes forever just to begin downloading anything when it finally comes across an ftp. Is there either a way to make it access http as well as ftp, or is there someway I can tell fetch to ignore or skip the http files and just use the ftp files, usually at the end of the list. cheers, Tim