2009/5/12 Philip Dowie <philip.dowie@integrationworks.co.nz>:
The FTP proxy as configured is for web browsers - it works by a HTTP(proxy) connection being initiated to the proxy server, and that proxy then goes and does all the FTP stuff, delivering you a page rendered in HTML as the result.
I don't think that the proxy is for web browsers only. After all, the CLI FTP client automatically detects the ftp_proxy environment variable and updates its own settings correspondingly. From the ftp man page: set [option value] Set option to value. If option and value are not given, dis- play all of the options and their values. The currently sup- ported options are: [...] ftp_proxy Defaults to $ftp_proxy. [...] So ftp_proxy is definitively also applicable to the CLI client. However, after re-reading the man page, I find ftp_proxy URL of FTP proxy to use when making FTP URL requests (if not defined, use the standard FTP protocol). It seems that the ftp client is intended to only respect ftp_proxy when used non-interactively... But then again % ftp ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/ does not work -- it attempts to connect to port 21 on ftp.gwdg.de. Ingolf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org