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| author | Arch Librarian <arch@canonical.com> | 2004-09-20 16:53:47 +0000 |
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| committer | Arch Librarian <arch@canonical.com> | 2004-09-20 16:53:47 +0000 |
| commit | d44893223244d859057820954b8dd2e61324ad08 (patch) | |
| tree | a584ef1ecb55a9d252c69496e01212f9d2674baa /doc | |
| parent | e42eb508e01f4de6def088fe941344d3ca733fa5 (diff) | |
http ftp proxy support
Author: jgg
Date: 1999-05-23 06:33:13 GMT
http ftp proxy support
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/sources.list.5.yo | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/sources.list.5.yo b/doc/sources.list.5.yo index e468ce3d4..605f46c50 100644 --- a/doc/sources.list.5.yo +++ b/doc/sources.list.5.yo @@ -86,7 +86,11 @@ Note that this is an insecure method of authentication. dit(bf(ftp)) The ftp scheme specifies an FTP server for the archive. APT's FTP behavior is highly configurable; for more information see the -bf(apt.conf(5)) manual page. +bf(apt.conf(5)) manual page. Please note that a ftp proxy can be specified +by using the ftp_proxy environment variable. It is possible to specify a http +proxy (http proxy servers often understand ftp urls) using this method and +ONLY this method. ftp proxies using http specified in the configuration +file will be ignored. dit(bf(copy)) The copy scheme is identical to the file scheme except that packages are |