Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 13:33:44 +1000 (EST) From: Jesse Reynolds <jesser@drives.rta.nsw.gov.au> To: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: ftp proxy with ports installs... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909141327450.20993-100000@erko.fm.rta.nsw.gov.au> In-Reply-To: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105C4D@site2s1>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Right... Well it's just the Netscape Proxy server, of Netscape Enterprise 351... It's a pretty popular beastie. I guess the thing is that it's listining on port 8888, and listens for both http and ftp requests on this port. Probably there is a standard proxy authentication scheme whereby a username / password is sent in the http header of the request... which makes me think fetch would need to talk http 1.1 or some such. Another alternative is for me to bypass the proxy server and the gauntlet firewall directly, which doesn't require authentication... The way that works is as follows: bash-2.03$ ftp gw Connected to gw.domainx.com. 220 gw.domainx.com FTP proxy (Version 3.2) ready. Name (gw:jesser): anonymous@ftp.freebsd.org 331-(----GATEWAY CONNECTED TO ftp.freebsd.org----) 331-(220 wcarchive.cdrom.com FTP server (Version DG-3.1.37 Sun Jun 20 21:18:25 PDT 1999) ready.) 331 Guest login ok, send your email address as password. Password: 230-Welcome to wcarchive - home FTP site for Walnut Creek CDROM. 230-There are currently 5315 users out of 6000 possible. This would be difficult to automate with fetch, wouldn't it? cheers jesse On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Christopher Michaels wrote: > What's the login process for the proxy? You CAN tell fetch to use proxy's > with some environment variables. > > Take a look at 'man fetch'. There are a number of environment variables. > > I'm personally not familiar with exactly how you would login your proxy so > any information regarding that may help the list to answer your question. > > -Chris > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jesse Reynolds [SMTP:jesser@drives.rta.nsw.gov.au] > > Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 2:42 AM > > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Subject: ftp proxy with ports installs... > > > > Hi > > > > Is there any way to tell the ports "make install" to use an ftp proxy to > > get installation files? At work I'm behind a firewall, and to do ftp > > either have to do it manually through a gauntlet firewall gateway, or via > > a webbrowser to go through the netscape proxy. > > > > Also, the faster of the two connections I have available requires me to > > put in a username and password - is there likely to be any > > way of getting authenticated ftp proxy access to the ports installer? > > > > cheers > > > > jesse > > > > ps, i'm not on the freebsd-questions list, so please reply directly to me, > > thanks > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Jesse Reynolds phone: 02 9475 > > 1795 > > Fujitsu Australia Limited email: > > jesser@drives.rta.nsw.gov.au > > Unit 6, 149 Arthur St, Flemington, NSW > > 2140 > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jesse Reynolds phone: 02 9475 1795 Fujitsu Australia Limited email: jesser@drives.rta.nsw.gov.au Unit 6, 149 Arthur St, Flemington, NSW 2140 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.4.10.9909141327450.20993-100000>