Gene Smith wrote:
I have a new situation at work were the proxy server refuses to allow
*.rpm files to be downloaded because they are "streaming media".
However, direct connect to the internet is allowed (bypassing the proxy)
only when ftp is used. So I can set firefox to use the proxy only for
http and do direct connect with ftp. This allows rpm files to be
downloaded in firefox if they are on ftp servers.
However, I don't know the correct method to configure yum to do the same
thing. There is "proxy" setting that I have set in yum.conf. It appears
to cause both http and ftp to use the proxy. Is there a way to tell yum
to use the proxy only for http access and to use no proxy when ftp
connection is attempted?
It observes the standard environment settings if you don't set a proxy
in the config file:
export http_proxy=http://your.proxy:port
export ftp_proxy=http://your.proxy:port (if it is squid and can proxy
ftp through http)
or omit the ftp_proxy setting to go direct.
I see a possibility of setting
proxy=_none_
which could be placed right before baseurl=ftp://.... if a list of
explicit urls are used, or maybe after mirrorlist=http://... if a list
of mirrors is requested. (http connections require the proxy.)
I don't have a way to test this now since my current distro (fedora 8)
seems to only be archived on 3 http servers and not on ftp. (I can use
an external socks server with ssh -D option to download f8 rpms via http
using firefox but yum does not support socks connections from what I
understand.)
Can you get to an external http proxy via ssh port-forwarding?
ssh -L:port:remote_address:port -l login remotehost
Then in another window while the ssh connection is up:
export http_proxy=http://localhost:port
yum update
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Les Mikesell
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