Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here's a pretty kettle of fish: > the method recently recommened for ftp proxies with dselect doesn't work, > because my lovely isp requires you to login to the proxy using your > username and password, and to get to the site by issuing a > > ftp> user [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Shouldn't be a problem as that case is specifically handled by the perl Net::FTP module dpkg-ftp relies for ftp support. Try setting the FTP_FIREWALL environment variable to your isp's proxy, leaving the dpkg-ftp info as it was. Does it help at all? -- Stephen --- "Normality is a statistical illusion." -- me -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .