Re: Bug#51315: apt: inaccuracy in /usr/share/man/man5/apt.conf.5.gz ?
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999 serge@SG3816.spb.edu wrote:
> in `man apt.conf` I see:
>
> ftp FTP URis; ftp::Proxy is the default proxy server to use. It is
> in the standard form of http://[[user][:pass]@]host[:port]/
> ^^^^
> and is overriden by the ftp_proxy environment variable.
The 'http' is a typo, it should be 'ftp'
> It seems to me that [[user][:pass]@]host applicable to ftp, not http.
Both HTTP and FTP have proxy authentication options, it is applicable to
both forms.
Jason
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