Adam P. Di Carlo wrote: >Should probably keep: > > http (dpkg-http) > maintainer says is obsolete in /usr/doc/dpkg-http/README.Debian: > > Package installation is unordered, which can cause difficulty > with important system packages with predendencies. Package > ordering is available in APT (A Package Tool), which will > replace dpkg-http. > > However, below: > > HTTP Proxy firewalls are supported thanks to Greg Wooledge. > "Authorization:" and "Proxy-Authorization:" are both supported, and > are known to work on "ANS InterLock Proxy" and "InterLock/4.0" > firewalls.
Apt features rather-well-tested HTTP Proxy authentication using Proxy-Authentication:, at least it works on every proxy those poor corporate saps on IRC have to go through (Squid, Netscape Proxy Server, Microsoft Proxy Server...). :> Perhaps this info should go in the documentation somewhere: To use HTTP proxies with apt, set the environment variable "http_proxy" to the desired proxy URL. For example, to use a proxy at proxy.worksucks.com, port 8080, as user 'johndoe' with a password of 'debian', you would type a command like this before running dselect or apt-get: export http_proxy=http://johndoe:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:8080/ For proxies that do not require user authentication, you can leave off the username and password: export http_proxy=http://proxy.worksucks.com:8080/ If your HTTP proxy will proxy FTP requests, and you plan to use an FTP server, you should set your ftp_proxy environment variable instead: export ftp_proxy=http://proxy.worksucks.com:8080/ wget and lynx also obey these environment variables. (Side note: apt v3 (0.3.x), still in development, features a way to specify the proxy information from a config file instead of an environment variable) -- Robert Woodcock - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It's like a love-hate relationship, but without the love." -- jwz, on linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
