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Date:      Mon, 11 Jun 2001 20:29:26 +0800
From:      James Lim <evilfry@sg.freebsd.org>
To:        Mark Yeck <y3k@gti.net>, Foldi Peter <ego_@freemail.hu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de>
Subject:   Re: install ports behind a http proxy
Message-ID:  <01061120292600.12799@evilfry.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010611071308.y3k@gti.net>
References:  <XFMail.010611071308.y3k@gti.net>

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Hi there,

=09have you tried specifying the following variables in make.conf?

#FTP_PROXY=3D      10.0.0.1:21
#HTTP_PROXY=3D     10.0.0.1:80

hope that helps


On the last episode Monday 11 June 2001 19:13, Mark Yeck wrote:
> On 11-Jun-01 Christoph Sold wrote:
> > Foldi Peter schrieb:
> >> I've got FreeBSD 4.3. I'm behind a http proxy. How can I get the
> >> make to get things through this
> >> proxy. I've found the file in /etc/defaults/ directory and I
> >> gave the address of the proxy,
> >> but the make can't connect to any sites.
> >
> > If you're located behind a http-only firewall, you have to
> > contact the firewall administrator. Standard FreeBSD mirrors
> > support only ftp install media.
>
> In the man page for fetch(3), there are environment variables for
> using proxy servers, FTP_PROXY and HTTP_PROXY and HTTP_PROXY_AUTH,
> though I've never gotten them to work through my proxy server.
> Netscape can be used to ftp through http proxy servers. For ports,
> I've been using netscape to download the files I need, and putting
> them in /usr/ports/distfiles.
>
> -mark
>
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Regards,
James Lim
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