From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 26 01:19:24 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 80B4516A4CE for ; Fri, 26 Nov 2004 01:19:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (CPE0050040655c8-CM00111ae02aac.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [69.194.102.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5214743D5E for ; Fri, 26 Nov 2004 01:19:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 87FD251192; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 17:23:51 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 17:23:51 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: timopie Message-ID: <20041126012351.GA78509@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <41A67B3D.1010202@dodo.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41A67B3D.1010202@dodo.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 01:19:24 -0000 --X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 10:39:25AM +1000, timopie wrote: > Hi everyone, >=20 > My primary internet access is at University (secondary is at home an a=20 > 56k modem). When I want to use ftp, or cvsup, I have to log onto the=20 > firewall in order to access the needed ports. This works great. The=20 > only time I ever have a problem is when fetch tries to access files=20 > through http rather than ftp (as are most of the files I want in the=20 > ports collection). I can get the files manually with firefox, but it is= =20 > very slow and painful. I tried setting up a .netrc file in /root=20 > defining HTTP_PROXY and HTTP_PROXY_AUTH (using the username and password= =20 > I use to access outside websites) but it still does not fetch through=20 > the http. Where did you read about putting these variables in .netrc? They're environment variables and should be set in the environment, e.g. in your shell login script. Kris --X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBpoWnWry0BWjoQKURAp2/AKCG79pYRDEwEVgWvmYurknAD7G6BwCgtret h/NZiTczci0AIC33HEfsII0= =Aqo5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT--