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Date:      Wed, 3 Jan 2001 19:47:22 +0100
From:      Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: fetch problem
Message-ID:  <20010103194722.X253@speedy.gsinet>
In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.2.20010103020936.08932118@mail.veetvision.com>; from ravi@veetvision.com on Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 02:10:47AM %2B0530
References:  <20010102132905.A15311@math.uic.edu> <5.0.2.1.2.20010103020936.08932118@mail.veetvision.com>

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On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 02:10 +0530, Ravi Jethani wrote:
> 
> At 01:29 PM 1/2/2001 -0600, Vladimir V. Egorin wrote:
> >Dear -STABLE Users,
> >
> >I ran into some problems with the ports collection (the system is
> >4.2-STABLE, built on Dec 21).   My machine is sitting behind
> >a proxy server (proxying http/ftp requests).
> >
> >I've set
> >export FTP_PROXY=ftp://proxy_address:1080/
> >export HTTP_PROXY=ftp://proxy_address:1080/
> >I've also tried setting FTP_PASSIVE_MODE.

Isn't the URL for an FTP proxy http(!)://proxy.ip:port/ ?

> >Fetch fails with the messages:
> >
> > >> libtool-1.3.4.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.
> > >> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/.
> >fetch: libtool-1.3.4.tar.gz: Protocol error

This makes sense if you try to talk FTP to an HTTP service.  :)


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