From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Jan 28 01:00:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA21718 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 01:00:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA21679 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 00:59:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@cain.gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id TAA10964; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 19:29:30 +1030 (CST) Message-Id: <199801280859.TAA10964@cain.gsoft.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Bill Fenner cc: "Daniel O'Connor" , Tim Vanderhoek , Warner Losh , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DRAFT: ports.7 In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 28 Jan 1998 00:38:59 PST." <98Jan28.003912pst.177476@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 19:29:29 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >use http_proxy, and ftp_proxy. Examples of programs which use this are > >Netscape, lynx, wget, and ftp (in -current anyway :) > And with fetch, you use HTTP_PROXY and FTP_PROXY. Do you really mean that > the other programs use lowercase environment variables? Sure do... IMHO fetch does it the 'wrong way'.. Also, you set {http,ftp}_proxy to "proto://machine.name:1234/", which differs from fetch. --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | ---------------------------------------------------------------------