Bug#266242: marked as done (port 80 makes for a bad default for a http proxy)
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From: Peter Palfrader <weasel@debian.org>
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Subject: port 80 makes for a bad default for a http proxy
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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.
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Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 23:09:41 +0200
From: Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>
To: 266242-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Port 80 *is* the default HTTP proxy port
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After some thinking and discussion, I feel that the default port for
the proxy must be 80.
For instance, when all software using the http_proxy variable find
"http_proxy=http://proxy.domain";, they go to port 80.
Same for /etc/apt/apt.conf settings...
As the http_proxy setting is a URI and the protocol part of it is
"http", the default port MUST be 80. Any other default would be
completely illogical.
Hence closing this bug report.
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