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Date:      Fri, 06 Aug 1999 10:29:24 +0930 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Chuck Youse <cyouse@cybersites.com>
Subject:   Re: fetch: default to passive mode?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990806102924.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <xzpg11yqy42.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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On 05-Aug-99 Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
>  "Chuck Youse" <cyouse@cybersites.com> writes:
> > I have a really strong urge to submit a PR to make fetch default to passive
> > mode, instead of requiring a command-line switch ...
>  
>  fetch(1) honors FTP_PASSIVE_MODE.

Speaking of fetch features.. Are there any plans to make fetch use a http proxy
for ftp requests like ftp does? At the moment I usually do 'make FETCH_CMD=ftp'
when making ports since it honours ftp_proxy (like wget, netscape and lynx)


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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum

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