On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 06:19:26PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Is it a known issue, that fetch doesn't work via local ftp proxy (squid) ?

Squid is not ftp proxy. It can be used as ftp-over-http proxy,
that is NOT the same thing.


> I updated the ports collection manually.
> Everything runs fine, if fetch can get something via http proto.
> Whenever something should be fetched via ftp proto, it does
> nothing at all and I get error code 999 (protocol error).
> In my root's .cshrc I added:

> setenv  FTP_PROXY       localhost:3128
> setenv  FTP_PASSIVE_MODE        YES

Delete these. You disinform fetch about type of your proxy.

> setenv  HTTP_PROXY      localhost:3128

This is enough for fetch. It will use http protocol 
both for http and ftp transfers. That is what squid wants.

Eugene Grosbein.

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