Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 07:30:02 -0800 (PST)
From: Stanislav Shalunov <shalunov@lynxhub.lz.att.com>
To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/10377: `make' in ports does not honor {f,ht}tp_proxy settings
Message-ID: <199903041530.HAA09064@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/10377; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Stanislav Shalunov <shalunov@lynxhub.lz.att.com>
To: hetzels@westbend.net (Scot W. Hetzel)
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: ports/10377: `make' in ports does not honor {f,ht}tp_proxy settings
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 10:18:28 -0500 (EST)
Scot W. Hetzel has written:
> I have used fetch behind a firewall, and if the {F,HT}TP_PROXY variables are
> defined, fetch will retrieve the file through the proxy server.
> The problem is that ftp & fetch both use different environment variables for
> the proxy servers.
> According to the man page for ftp, it says to uses ftp_proxy, http_proxy
> environment variables to access servers through a proxy server.
> While the man page for fetch, says to use FTP_PROXY, HTTP_PROXY environment
> variables to access servers through a proxy server.
Scot,
I am not sure you have paid attention to the fact that ftp and fetch
use different FTP proxy protocols: ftp(1) just retrieves file via HTTP
in the usual manner; fetch(1) expects proxy to talk the FTP protocol
and to forward requests further.
Everyone has the first kind of proxy around; nobody has this arcane
second kind.
The variables are called differently *for a reason*! I don't have
anything appropriate for FTP_PROXY. I do have something that can serve
as ftp_proxy.
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