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Re: Access to the ftp site with the http protocol ?



Hi, Shaul!

On Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 04:23:52PM +0200, you wrote the following:

> The problem is that I am behind a firewall and must use socks or in order to 
> have an ftp connection. Yet debian's APT does not work with socks and the 
> proxy server seems to connect to me with http when I tries to connect to an 
> ftp site. (It has a line like
> <!-- HTML listing generated by Squid 2.2.STABLE4 -->).

No problem -- set the ftp_proxy environment variable before running
apt to http://wwwproxy:8080/ or whatever. Then apt will use the
FTP-over-HTTP-proxy thing. It's documented in the apt.conf man page.


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