Re: Bug#41835: Why only passive ftp for apt-get
On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, John Daily wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.1.9
> Severity: wishlist
>
> I work behind a firewall which allows passive ftp via an HTTP proxy server
> only. apt-get seemingly supports neither active ftp nor a proxy server.
> Would it be possible to do one or the other?
>
> I set ftp_proxy to be 'http://proxy.server.com:<port>'. Setting the
> http_proxy environment variable worked for HTTP requests, fortunately, but
> no such luck with ftp.
You need to get the latest 0.3.11 version from http://www.debian.org/~jgg/
- it supports both FTP over HTTP and active FTP, along with a variety of
FTP proxy servers.
Jason
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