On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 10:39:25AM +1000, timopie wrote: > Hi everyone, > > My primary internet access is at University (secondary is at home an a > 56k modem). When I want to use ftp, or cvsup, I have to log onto the > firewall in order to access the needed ports. This works great. The > only time I ever have a problem is when fetch tries to access files > through http rather than ftp (as are most of the files I want in the > ports collection). I can get the files manually with firefox, but it is > very slow and painful. I tried setting up a .netrc file in /root > defining HTTP_PROXY and HTTP_PROXY_AUTH (using the username and password > I use to access outside websites) but it still does not fetch through > the http.
Where did you read about putting these variables in .netrc? They're environment variables and should be set in the environment, e.g. in your shell login script. Kris
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