Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 14:54:49 -0600 From: "Vladimir V. Egorin" <vladimir@math.uic.edu> To: Ravi Jethani <ravi@veetvision.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fetch problem Message-ID: <20010102145448.A15700@math.uic.edu> In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.2.20010103020936.08932118@mail.veetvision.com>; from ravi@veetvision.com on Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 02:10:47AM %2B0530 References: <20010102132905.A15311@math.uic.edu> <5.0.2.1.2.20010103020936.08932118@mail.veetvision.com>
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On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 02:10:47AM +0530, Ravi Jethani wrote: > Hi Vlad, > > At 01:29 PM 1/2/2001 -0600, Vladimir V. Egorin wrote: > >Dear -STABLE Users, > > > >I ran into some problems with the ports collection (the system is > >4.2-STABLE, built on Dec 21). My machine is sitting behind > >a proxy server (proxying http/ftp requests). > > > >I've set > >export FTP_PROXY=ftp://proxy_address:1080/ > >export HTTP_PROXY=ftp://proxy_address:1080/ > >I've also tried setting FTP_PASSIVE_MODE. > > just wondering how you can run an http and a ftp proxy on the same port ? > I made a typo here; the variables should read export FTP_PROXY=ftp://proxy_address:1080/ export HTTP_PROXY=http://proxy_address:1080/ This doesn't answer your question though. I am not sure how the proxy works (and I have no access to the machine that runs it), but I bet the local machine connects to the proxy on port 1080 and talks to it via some protocol (e.g. specifies the type of request involved (ftp or http)). -- Vladimir To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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