Upgrading stable behind a proxy

[Chris Pressey]

On Wed, 21 May 2003 18:49:36 +0200
Martin Krzysiak <cinek at gmx.de> wrote:

> [...]
> I found out the proxy is broken and I cannot download files with
> certain extensions (.ai for example; NO! It's not a filter! The proxy
> is _really_ broken! It's running on Windows, so I don't know about
> it.). So I cannot simply download files like '.aa' to '.zz' from the
> http/ftp-mirrors.
> 
> Additional remark: I am really glad that fetch works (.tgz & .tbz), so
> I can build ports at least, but cvsup'ing the ports-tree is
> impossible, too (I am always downloading it in one ports.tar.gz file).
> 
> Small request: is it possible to use other extensions for the splitted
> files on the servers? I know it's a difficult thing. I suppose, you
> want to keep the 8.3 MS-DOS style.

As someone who had to live with a severely brain-damaged proxy at work
for more than a year, I feel your pain.  (However, I think your
complaints should be directed at to whoever is responsible for such a
piece of trash, not FreeBSD...)

If you can tell me exactly which files you can trouble downloading (by
their URLs,) I can manually mirror them somewhere for you, under
different names.

-Chris