Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2014 10:59:54 +0100 From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> To: Olivier Nicole <olivier.nicole@cs.ait.ac.th> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Difference between fetch(1) and firefox http-access Message-ID: <20141208105954.4a456a6a@prometheus> In-Reply-To: <CA%2Bg%2BBvitiYVzhT1gKcXW8JQnMxZw1HhtXwubUYGh4x0V0b8YFQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <20141208081345.6960d593@prometheus> <CA%2Bg%2BBvitiYVzhT1gKcXW8JQnMxZw1HhtXwubUYGh4x0V0b8YFQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 8 Dec 2014 16:19:01 +0700 Olivier Nicole <olivier.nicole@cs.ait.ac.th> wrote: > Olivier, > > > Running CURRENT (FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #2 r275512: Fri Dec 5 > > 16:00:34 CET 2014 amd64), I ran into some kind of obscurity I can > > not fathom. > > > > Updating ports fails since a couple of days by now (I do updates on > > a daily basis). fetch isn't capable of reaching any(!) server it > > tries to download sourcecode tarballs from (neither via ports ftp, > > http, https). > > > > When manually copied the sources of the tarball to Firefox' URL > > requester, I can luckily download the sources to whatever > > destination I like and I have to copy them to > > the /usr/ports/distfiles[/blabla] destination manually. > > Did you try to fetch the source manually: fetch URL... Yes I did, no success, see below for the magic solution of the "problem" ... > > Just to confirm/infirm the problem with fetch. Do you have some > HTTP_PROXY env variable set? That was the hint of the hints. I swapped from a "secured" environment back to a more open and forgot to reset/unset the http_proxy and ftp_proxy environment variables :-( I wasn't aware of the fact that I had set them. So, the problem is bewtween my eyes ... Sorry for the noise, many thanks for the quick solution ... Oliver > > Olivier > > > > > As I understood "fetch" it establishes a simple ftp, http or https > > connection, as Firefox does. But it seems that something is going > > terribly wrong. > > > > It would be nice if someone could push me towards a hint or > > something to solve the problem. I hope it's not a serious bug but a > > simple error in the configuration. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Oliver > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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