Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 15:48:16 +0300 From: Yousef Raffah <yraffah@savola.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portsnap mirror servers Message-ID: <1145710096.44061.10.camel@redevil.savola.com> In-Reply-To: <444A22B0.3050502@swbell.net> References: <3aaaa3a0604171743y33af6355udf750eca65605920@mail.gmail.com> <44456BC2.1050102@freebsd.org> <200604211440.28535.benlutz@datacomm.ch> <1145629460.3188.27.camel@dell8600.dlib.vt.edu> <44491437.8040306@freebsd.org> <1145707287.44061.4.camel@redevil.savola.com> <444A2120.7090508@swbell.net> <444A22B0.3050502@swbell.net>
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--=-kXjd4OzfOHN/ibB/EaCU Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 07:33 -0500, Martin Jackson wrote: > >> I'm using 6.1-RC built on Apr 18 but that problem was there even on > >> 6.0-RELEASE > >=20 > > Are you using an HTTP proxy? The pre-6.1 series portsnap did not play=20 > > nicely with HTTP proxies. There were some patches committed in March o= r=20 > > so to address PR's on the subject. I haven't had an opportunity to tes= t=20 > > the changes in my work environment (which requires HTTP proxy use) yet,= =20 > > but they look promising. >=20 > Yech, sorry. What I meant to say was that portsnap didn't play nicely=20 > with proxies *requiring authentication*. The patches should address=20 > that, though I haven't tried them personally. >=20 > The way to specify auth information should be: >=20 > HTTP_PROXY=3Dhttp://proxy.example.com:8080 > HTTP_PROXY_AUTH=3Dbasic:*:<user>:<pwd> >=20 > (from man 3 fetch). >=20 Thank you for this information but my proxy settings does not require authentication. I just tried changing my proxy settings from http_proxy=3D"http://my.proxy.server:8080" to HTTP_PROXY=3Dhttp://my.proxy.server:8080 and it worked! :D I will keep on monitoring that and will report back if I have any issues. Thank you very much for your help --=-kXjd4OzfOHN/ibB/EaCU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBESiYQH9IXMb4e6CMRArUPAJ4yurAtRIKXKE54p13Uf5X9kTMwwgCcC2LK UHP7iLzFkZAiClf2sc/IxmE= =lUvA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-kXjd4OzfOHN/ibB/EaCU--
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