Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 12:07:32 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Zhang Weiwu <weiwuzhang@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: different types of ftp proxy? Message-ID: <20031103180732.GB71164@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <3FA63DD2.90609@hotmail.com> References: <3FA63DD2.90609@hotmail.com>
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In the last episode (Nov 03), Zhang Weiwu said: > Hello. My friend have a Windows XP box running acfp proxy server (an > opensource proxy server on sourceforge) which provide me http and ftp > proxy both at the port 3130. I use it with Mozilla. Works fine for > both http and ftp access. > > But I cannot use it with fetch(1). I set the http_proxy and ftp_proxy > environment variables (value=192.168.0.1:3130), but only http access > through the proxy succeed. Is fetch(1) using ftp_proxy in a different > way than Mozilla? Try setting ftp_proxy to "http://192.168.0.1:3130". The fetch command can FTP over either an ftp proxy or an http proxy, so you need to tell it which your server is. FTP over an http proxy is a bit limited, but it does work. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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