hanasaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: h> I have squid proxying ftp/http on my firewall. Thus, I cna see web pages h> from behind a firewall. I do not want to put a hole in the firewall to h> let people on the instide directly communicate with the outside via http h> or ftp. h> h> My netscape browser has a place to configure ftp/http/https firewalls and h> directs all http / ftp requests THROUGH the firewall. therefore, I h> believe apt-get would need to be configured to talk through the firewall h> as well. h> h> Do you have some specific advise on how to configure things?
Certainly, the APT maintainer did; the APT users' guide (/usr/share/doc/apt/guide.text.gz) has a pointer to sources.list(5), which contains the following stanza: http The http scheme specifies an HTTP server for the archive. If an environment variable $http_proxy is set with the format http://server:port/, the proxy server specified in $http_proxy will be used. Users of authenticated HTTP/1.1 proxies may use a string of the format http://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:port/ Note that this is an insecure method of authentication. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell