Re: apt-proxy

["Frank Langanke" <Farcon@web.de>]

On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 23:40:12 +0200, Frank Langanke wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> I'd like to install several Debian-Boxes behind our company's firewall.
> However for every http- or ftp-access to the internet I've to
> authenticate. I got apt-get going with the following configuration,
> taken from the apt.conf:
> 
> ftp
>   {
>     Proxy "ftp://firewall.company.de";;
> 
>     ProxyLogin
>     {
>       "USER  anonymous@ftp.de.debian.org firewall_user"; "PASS 
>       firewall_passwd";
>       "PASS  anonymous";
>     }
> };
> 
> This works for apt-get, how do I enable such a login-procedure for
> apt-proxy ? I tried to set the http_proxy and ftp_proxy variables like
> ftp_proxy=ftp://firewall_user:firewall_passwd@firewall.company.de/, but
> with no success.
> 
> Maybe someone got an idea,
> 
> Frank.

ftp_proxy _and_ http_proxy have to be set to
"http://firewall_user:firwall_passwd@firewall.company.de:80/";

wget works with those variables set, and finally apt-proxy,too.