Daniel O'Connor scribbled this message on Aug 6: > On 05-Aug-99 Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > "Chuck Youse" <cyo...@cybersites.com> writes: > > > I have a really strong urge to submit a PR to make fetch default to > > > passive > > > mode, instead of requiring a command-line switch ... > > > > fetch(1) honors FTP_PASSIVE_MODE. > > Speaking of fetch features.. Are there any plans to make fetch use a http > proxy > for ftp requests like ftp does? At the moment I usually do 'make > FETCH_CMD=ftp' > when making ports since it honours ftp_proxy (like wget, netscape and lynx)
hmmm... are you sure it doesn't? metriclient-1,ttype,/tmp,509$echo $HTTP_PROXY localhost:3128 metriclient-1,ttype,/tmp,507$fetch ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/config.txt Receiving config.txt: 3 Kbytes 3575 bytes transfered in 0.7 seconds (5.15 Kbytes/s) metriclient-1,ttype,/tmp,501#tail squid.access 933914913.491 3750 127.0.0.1 TCP_MISS/200 3816 GET ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/config.txt - DIRECT/ftp.cdrom.com text/plain sure looks like it uses the http proxy, and this is on 3.0-R... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 541 684 8449 Cu Networking P.O. Box 5693, 97405 "The soul contains in itself the event that shall presently befall it. The event is only the actualizing of its thought." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message