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authordes <des@FreeBSD.org>2000-07-21 10:57:15 +0000
committerdes <des@FreeBSD.org>2000-07-21 10:57:15 +0000
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Document the proxy support better.
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-rw-r--r--lib/libfetch/fetch.317
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libfetch/fetch.3 b/lib/libfetch/fetch.3
index d29809e..723cf3b 100644
--- a/lib/libfetch/fetch.3
+++ b/lib/libfetch/fetch.3
@@ -418,6 +418,14 @@ and message, e.g. "File is not available (404 Not Found)"
.It Ev FTP_PROXY
host name of the FTP proxy to use, optionally followed by a port
number separated from the host name by a colon.
+.Nm libfetch
+will send
+.Ql user@host
+as user name to the proxy, where
+.Ql user
+is the real user name, and
+.Ql host
+is the name of the FTP server.
.It Ev HTTP_AUTH
Specifies HTTP authorization parameters, used only if the server
requires authorization and no user name or password was specified in
@@ -431,10 +439,15 @@ password, in that order.
host name of the HTTP proxy to use, optionally followed by a port
number separated from the host name by a colon.
If no port number is specified, the default is 3128.
+Note that the HTTP proxy will also be used for FTP documents, unless
+the
+.Ev FTP_PROXY
+variable is set.
.It Ev HTTP_PROXY_AUTH
Specifies authorization parameters for the HTTP proxy in the same
-format as
-.Ev HTTP_AUTH .
+format as the
+.Ev HTTP_AUTH
+variable.
The value of this variable is used if and only if connected to an HTTP
proxy.
.El
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