portsnap mirror servers

[Yousef Raffah]

On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 07:33 -0500, Martin Jackson wrote:
> >> I'm using 6.1-RC built on Apr 18 but that problem was there even on
> >> 6.0-RELEASE
> > 
> > Are you using an HTTP proxy?  The pre-6.1 series portsnap did not play 
> > nicely with HTTP proxies.  There were some patches committed in March or 
> > so to address PR's on the subject.  I haven't had an opportunity to test 
> > the changes in my work environment (which requires HTTP proxy use) yet, 
> > but they look promising.
> 
> Yech, sorry.  What I meant to say was that portsnap didn't play nicely 
> with proxies *requiring authentication*.  The patches should address 
> that, though I haven't tried them personally.
> 
> The way to specify auth information should be:
> 
>             HTTP_PROXY=http://proxy.example.com:8080
>             HTTP_PROXY_AUTH=basic:*:<user>:<pwd>
> 
> (from man 3 fetch).
> 
Thank you for this information but my proxy settings does not require
authentication.

I just tried changing my proxy settings from
http_proxy="http://my.proxy.server:8080" to
HTTP_PROXY=http://my.proxy.server:8080 and it worked! :D

I will keep on monitoring that and will report back if I have any
issues.

Thank you very much for your help

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