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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/apt.conf.5.yo | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/apt.conf.5.yo b/doc/apt.conf.5.yo index 212ac05ec..c9a116d45 100644 --- a/doc/apt.conf.5.yo +++ b/doc/apt.conf.5.yo @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ outstanding requests APT should send. dit(bf(ftp)) FTP URis; ftp::Proxy is the default proxy server to use. It is in the -standard form of em(http://[[user][:pass]@]host[:port]/) and is overriden +standard form of em(ftp://[[user][:pass]@]host[:port]/) and is overriden by the ftp_proxy environment variable. To use a ftp proxy you will have to set the ftp::ProxyLogin script in the configuration file. This entry specifies the commands to send to tell the proxy server what to connect @@ -152,6 +152,11 @@ situations require that passive mode be disabled and port mode ftp used instead. This can be done globally, for connections that go through a proxy or for a specific host (See the sample config file for examples) +It is possible to proxy FTP over HTTP by setting the em(ftp_proxy) +environment variable to a http url - see the discussion of the http method +above for syntax. You cannot set this in the configuration file and it is +not recommended to use FTP over HTTP due to its low efficiency. + dit(bf(cdrom)) CDROM URIs; the only setting for CDROM URIs is the mount point, cdrom::Mount which must be the mount point for the CDROM drive as specified in /etc/fstab. |