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Date:      Wed, 22 Apr 1998 13:19:11 +0200
From:      Jeremy Lea <reg@shale.csir.co.za>
To:        freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bin/6371: fetch(1) uses HTTP_PROXY for ftp requests when FTP_PROXY undefined
Message-ID:  <19980422131911.A12877@shale.csir.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <199804221040.DAA12418@hub.freebsd.org>; from Martin Cracauer on Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 03:40:00AM -0700
References:  <199804221040.DAA12418@hub.freebsd.org>

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Hi...

On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 03:40:00AM -0700, Martin Cracauer wrote:
>  What we need here is a standard for $..._PROXY environment variables
>  that allows us to control the protocol and the kind of url seperatly,
>  preferrably without breaking older clients.

The http_proxy and ftp_proxy env variables used by ncftp look like so:

setenv http_proxy http://proxy.domain.com:port
setenv ftp_proxy http://proxy.domain.com:port

Which I think is better. It would be nice if fetch and ncftp used the same
settings...

 -Jeremy

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