Re: HTTP proxies and apt

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>]

On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Jules Bean wrote:

> On being told by one of the debian-sparc guys that I could get apt from
> project/eperimental compiled for sparc, I was about to switch back to apt.
> However, I find that apt only supports http_proxy, as far as I can see, if
> you set up an environment variable called http_proxy.

Inexcplicably http_proxy is a standard that everything understands, if you
set it then wget, lynx, netscape, apt, etc will all use the named proxy
server. That is why it is lower case.

Some distant future version will have this in a config file.

Thanks,
Jason


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