Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 11:00:18 +1000 From: Joe Shevland <shevlandj@kpi.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Transparent proxies and fetch Message-ID: <392C7B22.96CFD7AA@kpi.com.au>
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Hi, I recently posted about a problem I believed lay with the 'fetch' command on 3.4-STABLE, in that I kept getting error messages similar to: >> Attempting to fetch from http://people.FreeBSD.org/~andreas/download/. fetch: empty reply from people.FreeBSD.org when building ports. Someone wrote in asking whether our ISP has implemented a transparent proxy. Unfortunately I culled my mail folder so I can't respond directly, but the poster was on the money (the ISP grabs any port 80 requests and stuffs them into the proxy instead). My question now is how do I work around this issue? I've tried setting the HTTP_PROXY variable but this just makes the 'make install' of the ports fail very quickly: >> Attempting to fetch from http://people.FreeBSD.org/~andreas/download/. fetch: sendmsg: proxy.hbt.southcom.com.au: Can't assign requested address I assume this is something trivial like a port I need to put on the end (8080 in this case)? Cheers, Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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