Quoth Scott Bennett <[email protected]>, on 2009-06-03 15:22:43 -0500: > >I can't find a copy of the aforementioned fetch(3) page anywhere on > >the Web or on any system to which I have access. > > Try here: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fetch&apropos=0&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE&format=html
Okay. For some reason I wasn't able to find that with a search for "fetch(3)", but perhaps I did something wrong. Anyway, from that exact source: | EXAMPLES | To access a proxy server on proxy.example.com port 8080, set the | HTTP_PROXY environment variable in a manner similar to this: | | HTTP_PROXY=http://proxy.example.com:8080 so that doesn't support the thesis of HTTP proxy environment values not being formatted as URLs. Unrelatedly, it may be that I was mistaken about the port component and that it is required. There's also some confusion regarding the case of the variable name; some programs check both (including some of the examples I gave), but the lowercase form seems more common overall (probably due to name collisions with HTTP_* variables in CGI). And for the original user, more importantly, I might note that some programs, such as Lynx, appear to require a separate https_proxy setting as well. ---> Drake Wilson
