Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 19:29:29 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@hwcn.org>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DRAFT: ports.7 Message-ID: <199801280859.TAA10964@cain.gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 28 Jan 1998 00:38:59 PST." <98Jan28.003912pst.177476@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>
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> >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.
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