Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 10:39:25 +1000 From: timopie <timopie@dodo.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: problems with http in fetch for ports Message-ID: <41A67B3D.1010202@dodo.com.au>
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Hi everyone, My primary internet access is at University (secondary is at home an a 56k modem). When I want to use ftp, or cvsup, I have to log onto the firewall in order to access the needed ports. This works great. The only time I ever have a problem is when fetch tries to access files through http rather than ftp (as are most of the files I want in the ports collection). I can get the files manually with firefox, but it is very slow and painful. I tried setting up a .netrc file in /root defining HTTP_PROXY and HTTP_PROXY_AUTH (using the username and password I use to access outside websites) but it still does not fetch through the http. It will sit waiting for quite a few minutes until it times out and goes to the next site on the list - and when getting something from sourceforge it takes forever just to begin downloading anything when it finally comes across an ftp. Is there either a way to make it access http as well as ftp, or is there someway I can tell fetch to ignore or skip the http files and just use the ftp files, usually at the end of the list. cheers, Tim
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