Subject: Re: FTP proxy error - fetching files
To: Dunric <dunric@centrum.cz>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/15/2005 19:32:10
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 04:58:04PM +0100, Dunric wrote:
> Bellow is an sample output of download-vulnerability-list utility but it's ftp connection fault.
> I tried to set FETCH_ARGS environment variable with different options(-4 -a -d -v) but no success.
> Second line of output with null user and password looks strange. I'd expect to be like user="anonymous" and pass="`whoami`@".
> 
> ftp_proxy="ftp://myname:mypassword@ourftpproxy.ourdomain:4421"

This is because ftp_proxy should point to a http proxy. As far as I know,
ftp(1) doesn't support only http proxies.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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