Debian Bug report logs - #123144
Should allow setting of proxy FTP over HTTP in apt.conf (not only in environment)

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Should allow setting of proxy FTP over HTTP in apt.conf

Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2001 23:03:46 +0100

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: wishlist

The manual page for apt.conf reads:

  It is possible to proxy FTP over HTTP by setting the ftp_proxy
  environment variable to a http url - see the discussion of the http
  method above for syntax. You cannot set this in the configuration
  file and it is not recommended to use FTP over HTTP due to its low
  efficiency.

I would like to proxy FTP over HTTP, and would like to update
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/* instead of using the environment variable.  I
want the two ways of configuring an FTP proxy to work the same way,
making it possible to use

  Acquire::ftp::Proxy "http://proxy:3128/";

instead of having to change the enviroment.

Message #12 received at 123144@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>

To: 123144@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Not allowing ftp-over-http-proxy is a bug, not a wishlist

Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 19:41:58 +0000

I'm quite frustrated right now.  I have an apt source that is ftp, and I
just discovered this bug.  It's especially annoying as Google turns up a
message regarding the 0.3.2-era apt that shows it used to work.

I am on a laptop.  My laptop goes to the office (behind an http proxy)
and back home (no proxy).  While at the office, I cannot use an ftp
proxy, just ftp-over-http-proxy.  It's trivial to change apt.conf
automatically upon changing the network, but a true pain to have to
keep setting and unsetting ftp_proxy in my windows.

Joel

-- 

"Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it, merely projections."
        - T. S. Eliot

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			jlbec@evilplan.org

Message #17 received at 123144-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>

To: 123144-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Should allow setting of proxy FTP over HTTP in apt.conf (not only in environment)

Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:18:23 +0100

Version: 0.7.20.2+lenny1

As far as I can see, this bug is fixed and the manual page for
apt.conf document how to set the FTP proxy using the config file.

No idea when it was fixed, but it is fixed in the version in Lenny.

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen

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