From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jun 15 19:44:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F9CF37B406 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 19:44:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id EAA38707; Sat, 16 Jun 2001 04:44:06 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: ian j hart Cc: Andrey Alexeev , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: it's correct ? [setenv ftp_proxy http://proxy.mydomain.com:3128/] References: <96505140.20010615184301@vei.ru> <3B2AA5BD.7F6B3590@freeloader.freeserve.co.uk> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 16 Jun 2001 04:44:06 +0200 In-Reply-To: <3B2AA5BD.7F6B3590@freeloader.freeserve.co.uk> Message-ID: Lines: 26 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ian j hart writes: > Andrey Alexeev wrote: > > setenv ftp_proxy http://proxy.mydomain.com:3128/ > > setenv http_proxy http://proxy.mydomain.com:3128/ The correct names for these variables are FTP_PROXY and HTTP_PROXY, respectively. > This has come up before, but as the stable mailing list archive seems to > be unavailable you wouldn't know that. > > Don't set FTP_PROXY. Set HTTP_PROXY something like this > > username:password@hostname.domain:port > > AFAIK you don't need the protocol part. Technically correct (though the preferred syntax is the one Andrey uses), but not much help, as Andrey's real problem is that libfetch in 4.2-RELEASE doesn't recognize the lower-case versions of the proxy variables; support for those was added on March 15 for compatibility with Lynx. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message