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Date:      Mon, 3 Jun 2002 19:03:23 +0600
From:      "Vladimir G. Drobyshevsky" <vlad@telecom.ural.ru>
To:        owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, Walid Nehme <walidn@yahoo.com>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: install ports through proxy server
Message-ID:  <12132828354.20020603190323@telecom.ural.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20020603125325.26989.qmail@web10005.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20020603125325.26989.qmail@web10005.mail.yahoo.com>

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Have a nice day!

Monday, June 3, 2002, 6:53:25 PM, you wrote:

WN> Dear sirs.
WN> I'm interested in one question.
WN> i usually install ports from internet.
WN> but is there a way to tell my box to use a certain proxy
WN> server.
WN> i work in a localnet and have a proxy server for a download
WN> satellite, and want to use download satellite to download
WN> my ports, so that not to close the upload on my modem.
WN> Tnx a lot.
Just set environment variables named FTP_PROXY and HTTP_PROXY with
address of your proxy server, like

csh# setenv HTTP_PROXY http://proxy.some.host.com:3128
csh# setenv FTP_PROXY http://proxy.some.host.com:3128

and fetch will use that proxy.

Vl.




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