Re: Bug#51314: apt: ftp via http proxy configured in apt.conf does not work
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999 serge@SG3816.spb.edu wrote:
> In my /etc/apt/apt.conf I have:
>
> Acquire::http::Proxy "http://127.0.0.1:3128";;
> Acquire::http::No-Cache "true";
> Acquire::ftp::Proxy "http://127.0.0.1:3128";;
>
> When apt tries to use ftp I get something like this
>
> Err ftp://ftp.uni-marburg.de potato/kde libqt1g 1:1.44-6.5
> Protocol corruption
For some reason the man page does not mention this, but you cannot set an
http proxy in the configuration file, you must set it using the
environment variable ftp_proxy.
Jason
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