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Date:      Tue, 04 Mar 2003 11:11:21 -0500
From:      "Brian J. McGovern" <bmcgover@cisco.com>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        "Brian J. McGovern" <bmcgover@cisco.com>, qa@freebsd.org, bmcgover@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com
Subject:   Re: Changes to libfetch in 5.0 break proxy support? 
Message-ID:  <200303041611.h24GBLae005394@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Mar 2003 17:04:09 %2B0100." <xzpel5n2k5i.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> 

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 > "Brian J. McGovern" <bmcgover@cisco.com> writes:
 > > Here you go. This is done from a bash shell, having run a
 > > export FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS=-vvv
 > > export HTTP_PROXY=proxy-host.cisco.com:80
 > > export FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES
 > 
 > >From what you've shown me, I can only conclude that libfetch is
 > performing as expected, and the proxy is broken.
 > 
 > You can try to work around it by setting FTP_PROXY to an empty string,
 > which would tell libfetch not to use a proxy for FTP downloads.
 > 

Unfortunately, I need the proxy to get out of our restricted lab network.

 > > The hostnames have been altered to protect my internal network :) In this
 > > example, the proxy is running FreeBSD 5.0 with the stock apache 1.3 from
 > > the ports. The config file was edited so that proxy module was enabled.
 > > Verification of proxy was done by setting mozilla to use it for HTTP and
 > > FTP proxy, and several web pages and ftp transfers were done. Similarly, s
ome
 > > 4.7 clients were used with the last two of the three enviornment variables
 > > set (above), and it worked.
 > 
 > Please show me the output of a successful download with the same
 > options.
 > 

Will do, but it will probably be tomorrow, as I'm at home today, and don't
have a handy 4.7 box to use that isn't in use for its normal business
function.

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