Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 15:55:13 +0000 From: Rasputin <rasputin@submonkey.net> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: rasputin@submonkey.net: Re: HTTP_PROXY from /etc/make.conf? Message-ID: <20020207155513.A4117@shikima.mine.nu>
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Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 15:54:33 +0000 From: Rasputin <rasputin@submonkey.net> To: Alan Clegg <alan@clegg.com> Subject: Re: HTTP_PROXY from /etc/make.conf? Reply-To: Rasputin <rasputin@submonkey.net> * Alan Clegg <alan@clegg.com> [020207 14:15]: > Unless the network is lying to me again, Nora Etukudo said: > > > I've a Squid-Proxy here and it works not, if I set 'ftp_proxy' too. With > > 'http_proxy' only, the 'fetch' works for both 'ftp://'- and 'http://'- urls. > > As a followup to this, does anyone think that it might be feasable for > the ports and/or system make files to set HTTP_PROXY from /etc/make.conf? > > I have a number of systems on which this would allow me to 'fire-and-forget' > when doing updates... ;-) If you set it in /etc/profile, fetch will use it. Either that or my cablemodem can do 2Mb/sec all of a sudden. Incidentally, squid is a http_proxy, not an ftp_proxy - fetch knows how to tunnel ftp over http (which squid supports by default), if its given a http_proxy URL. Mozilla/Netscape groks this too (which is why you set ftp proxy separately in its preferences). That's why it breaks if you try setting ftp_proxy. -- Know thyself. If you need help, call the C.I.A. Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns :: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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