Thru a 'nasty' proxy

[Butterworth, Thaddaeus (Manpower Contract)]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd->questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Nelis
Lamprecht
>Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 6:47 AM
>To: Vittorio
>Cc: FreeBSD Questions
>Subject: Re: Thru a 'nasty' proxy
>
>On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 13:55:43 +0000, Vittorio <v.demartino2 at virgilio.it>
>wrote:
>> Old linux user now moving gradually to freebsd 5.2.1, at office we
have
>> a lan
>> 1) with an http proxy for which authentication via userid & passwd is
>> needed AND
>> 2) ftp is blocked, not permitted.
>> 
>> I want to use the ports and compile my programs. I have already tried
to
>> set the http proxy (as under linux, by the way!)  issuing:
>> 
>> env HTTP_PROXY="http://userid:passwd@myproxy.it:8080"
>> 
>> to no avail; freebsd complains endlessly that
>> ...............................
>> fetch: ftp://............: Host not found
>> .............................
>
>Try putting in the following in /etc/make.conf
>
>FETCH_ENV=      FTP_PROXY=http://userid:passwd@myproxy.it:8080
>FETCH_ENV=      HTTP_PROXY=http://userid:passwd@myproxy.it:8080
>
>To be honest, haven't tried it with authentication but the above would
>be the correct way to make use of a proxy for ports.
>
>Nelis
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If you want to test it without editing your /etc/make.conf file then you
can always type in setenv
FTP_PROXY=http://userid:passwd@myproxy.it:8080. That's what I use to
make sure that I've got the right settings before I change any conf
files.

Thad