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author | des <des@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-07-21 10:57:15 +0000 |
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committer | des <des@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-07-21 10:57:15 +0000 |
commit | ef0d473b84b8fccbcfffec18f6171fa502ae0492 (patch) | |
tree | f8ccddb35054b42856a3a3c37d310d1ca9839ae0 /lib/libfetch | |
parent | aac8cde86f5db3fb1153856842c01e9a8dbc15ec (diff) | |
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Document the proxy support better.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libfetch')
-rw-r--r-- | lib/libfetch/fetch.3 | 17 |
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 |