Daniel O'Connor scribbled this message on Aug 6:
> On 05-Aug-99 Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> > "Chuck Youse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > I have a really strong urge to submit a PR to make fetch default to passive
> > > mode, instead of requiring a command-line switch ...
> >
> > fetch(1) honors FTP_PASSIVE_MODE.
>
> Speaking of fetch features.. Are there any plans to make fetch use a http proxy
> for ftp requests like ftp does? At the moment I usually do 'make FETCH_CMD=ftp'
> when making ports since it honours ftp_proxy (like wget, netscape and lynx)
hmmm... are you sure it doesn't?
metriclient-1,ttype,/tmp,509$echo $HTTP_PROXY
localhost:3128
metriclient-1,ttype,/tmp,507$fetch ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/config.txt
Receiving config.txt: 3 Kbytes
3575 bytes transfered in 0.7 seconds (5.15 Kbytes/s)
metriclient-1,ttype,/tmp,501#tail squid.access
933914913.491 3750 127.0.0.1 TCP_MISS/200 3816 GET ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/config.txt -
DIRECT/ftp.cdrom.com text/plain
sure looks like it uses the http proxy, and this is on 3.0-R...
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