From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 29 19:50:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA27755 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 29 Apr 1997 19:50:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from valhalla.stormking.com (root@valhalla.stormking.com [204.141.98.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA27750 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 1997 19:50:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tucslap.UUCP (root@localhost) by valhalla.stormking.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with UUCP id WAA20099 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 29 Apr 1997 22:49:59 -0400 Received: (from tuc@localhost) by tucslap.stormking.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id WAA00541 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 29 Apr 1997 22:37:59 -0400 From: "Scott J. Ellentuch" Message-Id: <199704300237.WAA00541@tucslap.stormking.com> Subject: Install - Proxy and FTP / id/pass - II To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 17:39:20 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: tuc@stormking.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In Scott J. Ellentuch' own words (And I ">_") : > > Hi, > > I'm to the point where I can do a proxy install, but I've > run into a problem. My proxy needs an id/password. I *THOUGHT* > I could do something like : > > > > ftp://proxid:proxpass@proxy.company.com/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.1-RELEASE > > but it seems that either it isn't a correct syntax, or the install doesn't > REALLY honor the ftp URL. Can someone confirm/deny this? > > Thanks, Tuc/TTSG To follow up, I have the ability to switch to another firewall network that doesn't use id's and passwords, and it appears that the ftp:// URL still won't work as it does in a browser. It appears it always wants to do a "USER" and not a "GET". Is this true? (More proof that the ftp:// is really not what it appears) Tuc/TTSG -- Scott J. Ellentuch, The Telecom Security Group/TTSG, Newburgh, NY Visit our Web Site at http://www.ttsg.com/ "Over the UUCP link, out the ethernet, through the media converter, down the fiber, off a router, down the 56K, past my ISP...nothing but Net" - with poetic license from Dave Owen of IBM