On 3 Dec 2008 , RW entreated about
 "Re: freebsd-update through proxy with auth":

> On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:36:29 +0200
> "DA Forsyth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Hiya
> > 
> > How do I get freebsd-update to fetch through a proxy that requires 
> > authentication?  I cannot find any options in the man pages.
> > 
> 
> have you tried putting it in the proxy name
> 
> http://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:port 

sadly, that doesn't work
looks like freebsd-update never queries the http_proxy env variable

--
       DA Fo rsyth            Network Supervisor
Principal Technical Officer -- Institute for Water Research
http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes/iwr/


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