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From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Subject: Re: fetch: default to passive mode?
Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Chuck Youse <cyouse@cybersites.com>
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On 05-Aug-99 Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
>  "Chuck Youse" <cyouse@cybersites.com> writes:
> > I have a really strong urge to submit a PR to make fetch default to passive
> > mode, instead of requiring a command-line switch ...
>  
>  fetch(1) honors FTP_PASSIVE_MODE.

Speaking of fetch features.. Are there any plans to make fetch use a http proxy
for ftp requests like ftp does? At the moment I usually do 'make FETCH_CMD=ftp'
when making ports since it honours ftp_proxy (like wget, netscape and lynx)


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