Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 10:24:02 +0530 From: "N. Raghavendra" <raghu@mri.ernet.in> To: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd behind a proxy Message-ID: <868wy18vth.fsf@riemann.mri.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <20080523010356.7a875a5a@gumby.homeunix.com.> (RW's message of "Fri, 23 May 2008 01:03:56 %2B0100") References: <004301c8bc18$3f419a00$c500000a@SupportDela> <20080523010356.7a875a5a@gumby.homeunix.com.>
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At 2008-05-23T01:03:56+01:00, RW wrote: > You might conceivably need to set ftp_proxy and the capitalised > versions: HTTP_PROXY and FTP_PROXY, but I think everything should > fall-back to http_proxy. Not everything, perhaps. E.g., fetch(3) does --- for FTP requests it uses the first variable that is set among FTP_PROXY, ftp_proxy, HTTP_PROXY, and http_proxy. AFAIK, wget(1) doesn't --- if ftp_proxy is unset, it doesn't use a proxy for FTP requests, even if http_proxy is set. Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra <raghu@mri.ernet.in> | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri.ernet.in/ See message headers for contact and OpenPGP information.
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