Difference between fetch(1) and firefox http-access

Olivier Nicole olivier.nicole at cs.ait.ac.th
Mon Dec 8 09:19:02 UTC 2014


Olivier,

> Running CURRENT (FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #2 r275512: Fri Dec  5 16:00:34
> CET 2014 amd64), I ran into some kind of obscurity I can not fathom.
>
> Updating ports fails since a couple of days by now (I do updates on
> a daily basis). fetch isn't capable of reaching any(!) server it tries
> to download sourcecode tarballs from (neither via ports ftp, http,
> https).
>
> When manually copied the sources of the tarball to Firefox' URL
> requester, I can luckily download the sources to whatever destination I
> like and I have to copy them to the /usr/ports/distfiles[/blabla]
> destination manually.

Did you try to fetch the source manually: fetch URL...

Just to confirm/infirm the problem with fetch. Do you have some
HTTP_PROXY env variable set?

Olivier

>
> As I understood "fetch" it establishes a simple ftp, http or https
> connection, as Firefox does. But it seems that something is going
> terribly wrong.
>
> It would be nice if someone could push me towards a hint or something
> to solve the problem. I hope it's not a serious bug but a simple error
> in the configuration.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Oliver
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