From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 24 17:51:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from www.kpi.com.au (www.kpi.com.au [203.39.132.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19DC837B674 for ; Wed, 24 May 2000 17:51:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shevlandj@kpi.com.au) Received: from kpi.com.au (ws06.kpi.com.au [203.39.132.219]) by www.kpi.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA03313 for ; Thu, 25 May 2000 10:51:58 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from shevlandj@kpi.com.au) Message-ID: <392C7B22.96CFD7AA@kpi.com.au> Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 11:00:18 +1000 From: Joe Shevland Organization: KPI Logistics Pty Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Transparent proxies and fetch Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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