The following reply was made to PR bin/30802; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Mike M. Volokhov" <mishka@random.od.ua>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: lukem@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org,
	mishka@apk.od.ua
Subject: Re: bin/30802 (ftp(1) doesn't use ftp/http proxies in interactive mode)
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:11:19 +0300

 On 6/5/07, lukem@netbsd.org <lukem@netbsd.org> wrote:
 > It is extremely unlikely that ftp(1) will be enhanced to support
 > a full HTTP & HTML parser that would allow implementing the requested
 > behaviour (interactive ftp fetching through a http proxy).
 
 Maybe is it  possible to learn pkg_add to use ftp non-interactively?
 
 --
 Mishka.