problems with http in fetch for ports

[Kris Kennaway]

On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 10:39:25AM +1000, timopie wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> My primary internet access is at University (secondary is at home an a 
> 56k modem). When I want to use ftp, or cvsup, I have to log onto the 
> firewall in order to access the needed ports.  This works great. The 
> only time I ever have a problem is when fetch tries to access files 
> through http rather than ftp (as are most of the files I want in the 
> ports collection). I can get the files manually with firefox, but it is 
> very slow and painful. I tried setting up a .netrc file in /root 
> defining HTTP_PROXY and HTTP_PROXY_AUTH (using the username and password 
> I use to access outside websites) but it still does not fetch through 
> the http.

Where did you read about putting these variables in .netrc?  They're
environment variables and should be set in the environment, e.g. in
your shell login script.

Kris
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