On Fri, 26 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > in `man apt.conf` I see: > > ftp FTP URis; ftp::Proxy is the default proxy server to use. It is > in the standard form of http://[[user][:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:port]/ > ^^^^ > and is overriden by the ftp_proxy environment variable.
The 'http' is a typo, it should be 'ftp' > It seems to me that [[user][:[EMAIL PROTECTED] applicable to ftp, not http. Both HTTP and FTP have proxy authentication options, it is applicable to both forms. Jason
