* Sebastian Leske: > In order to use debsecan from behind a firewall, it is useful/necessary > to let it connect via a http proxy. > > This can by accomplished by setting the environment variable > http_proxy, > e.g. > export http_proxy="http://myproxy:8080"; > > This useful behaviour is not documented in the manpage.
Even though I deliberately inherited it from urllib2. 8-) Is there a definite reference for the syntax of http_proxy? IIRC, some programs only handle the "myproxy:8080" syntax, while others (like urllib2) can deal with both forms. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
