On Tue 17 Aug, Peter Palfrader wrote: > > Package: debian-installer > Version: 20040801 (tftp) > Severity: normal > > In the 'choose a mirror' part the user is asked for a HTTP proxy. If > one only gives http://<hostname>/ as the proxy, the installer picks > a default port of 80 for the requests, which is a bad idea. > > In my case I got > | Bad Archive Mirror > | The specified archive mirror is either not available or does not have > | a valid Release file. blabla > > Reason being of course that on port 80 there's an apache which is > not really a proxy server. > > A better default would be 3128 (squid's default port) or 8080. > Also support for apt-proxy and apt-cacher access please
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