Package: apt Version: 0.5.4 Severity: wishlist The manual page for apt.conf reads:
It is possible to proxy FTP over HTTP by setting the ftp_proxy environment variable to a http url - see the discussion of the http method above for syntax. You cannot set this in the configuration file and it is not recommended to use FTP over HTTP due to its low efficiency. I would like to proxy FTP over HTTP, and would like to update /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/* instead of using the environment variable. I want the two ways of configuring an FTP proxy to work the same way, making it possible to use Acquire::ftp::Proxy "http://proxy:3128/";; instead of having to change the enviroment.
