Re: ftpproxy with dselect

[Stephen Zander <srz@mckesson.com>]

Andrew <ajt@cantva.canterbury.ac.nz> writes:

> Here's a pretty kettle of fish: 
> the method recently recommened for ftp proxies with dselect doesn't work,
> because my lovely isp requires you to login to the proxy using your
> username and password, and to get to the site by issuing a
> 
> ftp> user anonymous@ftphost.some.domain.etc

Shouldn't be a problem as that case is specifically handled by the perl
Net::FTP module dpkg-ftp relies for ftp support.  Try setting the
FTP_FIREWALL environment variable to your isp's proxy, leaving the dpkg-ftp
info as it was. Does it help at all?

-- 
Stephen
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