Bug#266242: port 80 makes for a bad default for a http proxy
Package: debian-installer
Version: 20040801 (tftp)
Severity: normal
In the 'choose a mirror' part the user is asked for a HTTP proxy. If
one only gives http://<hostname>/ as the proxy, the installer picks
a default port of 80 for the requests, which is a bad idea.
In my case I got
| Bad Archive Mirror
| The specified archive mirror is either not available or does not have
| a valid Release file. blabla
Reason being of course that on port 80 there's an apache which is
not really a proxy server.
A better default would be 3128 (squid's default port) or 8080.
--
Peter
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