Difference between fetch(1) and firefox http-access

[O. Hartmann]

On Mon, 8 Dec 2014 16:19:01 +0700
Olivier Nicole <olivier.nicole at cs.ait.ac.th> wrote:

> 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...

Yes I did, no success, see below for the magic solution of the
"problem" ...
> 
> Just to confirm/infirm the problem with fetch. Do you have some
> HTTP_PROXY env variable set?

That was the hint of the hints. I swapped from a "secured" environment
back to a more open and forgot to reset/unset the http_proxy and
ftp_proxy environment variables :-( I wasn't aware of the fact that I
had set them. So, the problem is bewtween my eyes ...

Sorry for the noise, many thanks for the quick solution ...


Oliver
> 
> 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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