FTP Proxies and Ports

[Remko Lodder]

Bigelow, Andrea L. wrote:

Hi Andi,
> Hello, 
> 
> I've thus far been unsuccessful with $FTP_PROXY and $HTTP_PROXY in getting
> fetch to honor my company's FTP proxy. The easiest way to use the proxy is a
> URL format: ftp://<username>:<password>@<server>. Is there a way that I can
> specify that this format be used anytime I want to download and install or
> update a port? I'm using fetch instead of CVSup. 

I'd needed to set
ftp_proxy=http://username:password@<proxy>:<prt>
and
http_proxy=http://username:password@<proxy>:<prt>
while using squid.
Yes there are 2 http's.

Test it ;)

Cheers!

> 
> Thanks for any help you can provide!
> 


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