Bug#266242: port 80 makes for a bad default for a http proxy

[Chris Bell <chrisbell@overview.demon.co.uk>]

On Tue 17 Aug, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
   Also support for apt-proxy and apt-cacher access please

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Chris Bell